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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:

PR2.14062, 1954-1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14062
Scope and Contents

Note and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral diplegia; bronchopneumonia; intellectual retardation; epileptic attack; and spastic arms. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954-1955

PR2.14066, 1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14066
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; degenerative cerebro-vascular changes; and alcoholism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954

PR2.14070, 1953-1957

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14070
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 61 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; memory difficulties; cerebral atrophy; and paraesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1957

PR2.14082, 1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14082
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: fits; abdominal pain; peptic ulcer syndrome; epilepsy; and head injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954

PR2.14109, 1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14109
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 62 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fainting; headache; and dizziness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954

PR2.14124, 1954-1959

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14124
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, handwritten notes, charts and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; communicating hydrocephalus; epilepsy; retarded development; paresis; internal strabismus; and speech indistinctness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954-1959

PR2.14129, 1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14129
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, photograph, autopsy report, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombophlebitis; bronchopneumonia; epileptic fits; arteriovenous malformation; cavernous sinus thrombosis; partial blindness; subarachnoid hamorrhage; and brainstem ischaemia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1954

PR2.14136, 1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14136
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 63 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attack. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954

PR2.14138, 1954-1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14138
Scope and Contents

Charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attacks; and thrombophlebitic process. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954-1955

PR2.14139, 1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14139
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: arterial hypertension; headaches; and localised epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954