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Epilepsy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to a sudden, disorderly, and excessive neuronal discharge. Epilepsy classification systems are generally based upon: (1) clinical features of the seizure episodes (e.g., motor seizure), (2) etiology (e.g., post-traumatic), (3) anatomic site of seizure origin (e.g., frontal lobe seizure), (4) tendency to spread to other structures in the brain, and (5) temporal patterns (e.g., nocturnal epilepsy).,Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4350 Collections and/or Records:

PR4.1043, 1937

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1043
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; epilepsy; infective pyelitis; and skull fracture. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937

PR4.1047, 1937-1938

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1047
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 11 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: birth injury; head injury; epilepsy; and mental retardation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937-1938

PR4.1048, 1937-1940

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1048
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 7 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; headache; mental retardation; and deterioration of vision. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937-1940

PR4.1058, 1937-1964

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1058
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, typed case summary, report, charts and notes relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; epilepsy; and gliosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937-1964

PR4.1059, 1937

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1059
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; mental deficiency; and deafness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937

PR4.1064, 1937

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1064
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 81 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: ?thrombosis; epilepsy; facial pain; and tinnitus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937

PR4.1070, 1937

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1070
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; epilepsy; mastoiditis; and anaemia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937

PR4.1071, 1937

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1071
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 14 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; epilepsy; hemiplegia; and hypertonus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937

PR4.1072, 1937-1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1072
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, report, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 31 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; headache; numbness in left leg; and aphonia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937-1955

PR4.1076, 1937-1939

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1076
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 1 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: hypotonia; photophobia; epilepsy; and amentia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937-1939