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Epilepsy

 Subject

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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:

PR2.167, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.167
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; epilepsy; fits; and aphasia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.170, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.170
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; convulsions; agraphia; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.178, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.178
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; deafness; tinnitus; and cerebral arteriosclerosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.186, 1941-1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.186
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: paresis; brain injury; epilepsy; and birth injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1944
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.203, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.203
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; and fits. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.204, 1941-1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.204
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; and convulsions. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1942
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.215, 1941-1965

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.215
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, photographs, charts and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 34 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; epilepsy; dizziness; fits; headache; and aneurysm. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1965
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.225, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.225
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 35 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; chest pain; and shoulder pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.231, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.231
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: spasms; birth injury; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.232, 1964

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.232
Scope and Contents

Tracer card and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) first examined in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: fits; epilepsy; and tumour. Treatment unknown. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1964
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)