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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:

PR2.363, 1941-1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.363
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 8 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: fits; right hemiparesis; facial weakness; and epileptic attacks. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1951
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)

PR2.379, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.379
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; fed up; easily annoyed; jerking movement of head; drowsy; weight loss; subdural haematoma; and epileptic phenomena. Surgical 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)

PR2.395, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.395
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headache; 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)

PR2.400, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.400
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient first examined in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: 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)

PR2.401, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.401
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 42 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: anosmia; deafness; facial paresis; dysarthria; epileptic automatism; and fugue states. 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)

PR2.410, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.410
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 38 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: fits; 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)

PR2.418, 1941-1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.418
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; head injury; and fits. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1951
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)

PR2.423, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.423
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: paralysis; 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)

PR2.424, 1941-1948

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.424
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: fits; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1948
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)

PR2.427, 1941-1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.427
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, autopsy report, photographs, glass slides and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 54 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: fits; vomiting; meningioma; epilepsy; and squamous cell carcinoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

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)