Epilepsy

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull; head injury; unconsciousness; epilepsy; seizure; incontinence; paraparesis; aphasia; amnesia; photophobia; personality change; weakness; and hypertonus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and reports relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: syphilis of nervous system; epilepsy; fit; vision disorder; and pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, autopsy report, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: acoustic neurinoma; disseminated sclerosis; hemi-paresis; gait disorder; papilloedema; deafness; vision disorder; tremor; demyelination; epilepsy; and seizures. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; head injury; seizures; unconsciousness; and headache. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, report and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 9 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fluid intra-cerebral haematoma; head injury; seizures; unconsciousness; incontinence; hemiplegia; and dysrhythmia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 9 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; depressed fracture of skull; paresis; subdural haematoma; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; meningitis; nystagmus; facial weakness; epilepsy; and seizures. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 1 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: fits; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; meningitis; headache;vomiting; hemiparesis; and epileptic movements. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; mental backwardness; homonymous hemianopia; right-sided convulsion; and nystagmus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, chart, and report relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; siezures; headaches; unconsciousness; head injury; concussion; dysrhythmia; and hysteria. No treatment given. Patient discharged.