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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:

PR2.10814, 1952

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10814
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cryptogenic epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10817, 1951-1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10817
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, chart, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: cryptogenic epilepsy; and papilloedema. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1952

PR2.10825, 1952-1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10825
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: blackouts; epilepsy; and hysteria. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1953

PR2.10828, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10828
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 39at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; and cerebral disorder. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10831, 1952-1960

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10831
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: traumatic epilepsy; post traumatic headache; and head injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1960

PR2.10850, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10850
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 67at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: memory difficulty; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10864, 1951-1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10864
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: hemiparesis; tuberculoma; haemorrhage; aretrio-venous malformation; epileptic manifectations; and tuberculous arteritis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1952

PR2.10874, 1952-1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10874
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: psychogenic epilepsy; and mentally defective. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1953

PR2.10878, 1951-1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10878
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attack; fits; and homonymous hemianopia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1953

PR2.10890, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10890
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 5at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attack. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952