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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:

PR2.1349, 1943-1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1349
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; birth injury; and brain injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1953
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)

PR2.1350, 1942-1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1350
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 1943. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; and fits. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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)

PR2.1353, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1353
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 82 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: unconsciousness; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 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)

PR2.1356, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1356
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: headache; fits; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 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)

PR2.1360, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1360
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 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)

PR2.1374, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1374
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fits; epilepsy; aphasia; and tabo-paresis. 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)

PR2.1383, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1383
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient first examined in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: somnolence; ptosis; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 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)

PR2.1386, 1943-1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1386
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, reports, drawing and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; petit mal; headache; cyst; astrocytoma; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1959
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)

PR2.1395, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1395
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fits; somnolence; 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)

PR2.1396, 1942-1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1396
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 30 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: convulsions; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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)