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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:

PR2.14896, 1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14896
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; seizures; and unconsciousness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955

PR2.14905, 1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14905
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: presenile cerebral atrophy; Pick's Atrophy; epilepsy; seizures; unconsciousness; and amnesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955

PR2.14907, 1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14907
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and reports relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 54 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: herpes zoster; epilepsy; seizures; unconsciousness; and nausea. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955

PR2.14913, 1955-1961

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14913
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 44 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral atrophy; epilepsy; seizures; headaches; and dizziness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955-1961

PR2.14914, 1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14914
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; seizures; vertigo; Meniere syndrome; mitral stenosis; bronchitis; and fibrillation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955

PR2.14922, 1955-1959

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14922
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 13 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; seizures; unconsciousness; and headache. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955-1959

PR2.14926, 1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14926
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence, notes and chart relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 14 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: post-traumatic epilepsy; head injury; seizures; personality disorder; and incontinence. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955

PR2.14931, 1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14931
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence, notes and report relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 32 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: cryptogenic epilepsy; seizures; unconsciousness; headaches; and incontinence. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955

PR2.14937, 1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14937
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; seizures; diabetes; and diarrhoea. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955

PR2.14942, 1955-1962

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14942
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: spheroidal ridge meningioma; headache; unconsciousness; vomiting; depression; sleep disorder; weakness; paraphasia; blackouts; epilepsy; and venous thrombosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955-1962