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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:

PR2.1227, 1942-1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1227
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fits; headache; and epilepsy. 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)

PR2.1228, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1228
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; and cysticerous epilepsy. No 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)

PR2.1232, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1232
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 21 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fits; 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)

PR2.1233, 1942-1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1233
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fits; headache; astrocytoma; and epilepsy. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Dates: 1942-1943
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)

PR2.1235, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1235
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy. No 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)

PR2.1240, 1942-1957

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1240
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, drawing, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; paresis; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1957
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)

PR2.1241, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1241
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fits; and epilepsy. No 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)

PR2.1251, 1942-1949

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1251
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fits; astrocytoma; epilepsy; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital following several admission.

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)

PR2.1252, 1925-1952

 Item
Identifier: LHB41 CC/2/PR2.1252
Scope and Contents

Case summary relating to female patient from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 32 at examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic fits, cervical adenitis. No treatment given.

Dates: 1925-1952
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Victoria Dispensary, Hospital and Tuberculosis Trust case notes / Royal Victoria Dispensary for Diseases of the Chest case notes

PR2.1253, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1253
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 67 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: headache; dizziness; fits; epilepsy; head injury; and cerebral vascular disorder. No 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)