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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:

PR2.10899, 1952

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10899
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 66at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attacks. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10909, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10909
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; epileptic fits; and amnesia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10915, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10915
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 4at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: attacks of convulsions; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10916, 1952-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10916
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, photographs, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: nocturnal epilepsy; tuberculoma; haemorrhage; oligo-astrocytoma; glioma; and pulmonary oedema. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1952-1954

PR2.10925, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10925
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: subdural haemorrhage at birth; microcephaly; thrombosis; epilepsy; and retarded development. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10926, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10926
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 35at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: nocturnal epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10929, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10929
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, report, note and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attacks; 6th nerve paralysis; and deafness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10931, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10931
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: nocturnal epileptic fits. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.10932, 1952-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10932
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, note, reports, charts and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculous meningitis; hydrocephalus; papilloedema; epilepsy; headache; cerebral abscess; febrile illnesses; and drowsiness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1952-1954

PR2.10937, 1951-1956

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10937
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, newspaper cuttings, photographs, slides, reports, notes, charts, typed article and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 1at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: infantile hemiplegia; birth injury; hemiparesis; retarded mental development; epilepsy; and hemiapraxia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1956