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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:

PR2.537, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.537
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 41 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; nausea; epilepsy; fainting; loss of consciousness; and strabismus. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 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)

PR2.545, 1942-1949

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.545
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 14 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; disturbance of consciousness; pyknolepsy; and fits. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1949
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)

PR2.548, 1941-1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.548
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 30 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: fits; headache; and epileptic attacks. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1946
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)

PR2.549, 1942-1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.549
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 33 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; frontal headache; fits; epileptic attacks; motor weakness; numbness in hand; weakness in limbs; neuro-degenerative epilepsy; and aphasia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1945
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)

PR2.557, 1942-1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.557
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 4 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: loss of consciousness; epilepsy; microcephalic idiocy; and dementia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1951
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)

PR2.560, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.560
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 42 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attacks; fit; headache; and pleurisy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 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)

PR2.561, 1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.561
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, correspondence and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 45 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attacks; aphasia; unconsciousness; frontal headaches; failure of memory; hemiparesis; and astrocytoma. 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)

PR2.571, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.571
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 28 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: oculogyric attacks; encephalitis; and sleep disturbances. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 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)

PR2.572, 1941-1948

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.572
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 28 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: dizzy turns; unconscious; 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)

PR2.578, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.578
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 20 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fits; unconscious; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 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)