Epilepsy

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: bilateral florid papilloedema; headaches; vomiting; external hydrocephalus; and epileptic attacks. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, autopsy report and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; epileptic attacks; and hypertension. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: fits; numbness; headache; cyst; endothelioma; meningioma; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; and astroblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, newspaper clippings, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 38 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; seizures; polyuria; arterial venous fistula; subarachnoid haemorrhage; angioma; and encephalitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: convulsions; epilepsy; and head injury. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, drawings, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; failure of vision; papilloedema; fits; epilepsy; mental deterioration; and meningioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; skull fracture; fits; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; depression; subdural haematoma; epilepsy; paresis; and tumour. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and report relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; headache; vomiting; and glioblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.