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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:

PR2.1683, 1943-1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1683
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: fits; headache; meningioma; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical 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)

PR2.1691, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1691
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 63 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: arteriosclerosis; epilepsy; and seizures. 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)

PR2.1701, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1701
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 1 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy. Nonsurgical 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)

PR2.1723, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1723
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: mental retardation; fits; hemiparesis; birth injury; epilepsy; and haemorrhage. 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)

PR2.1731, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1731
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; streptococcus septicaemia; nephritis; and fits. 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)

PR2.1740, 1943-1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1740
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 36 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: failure of vision; headache; unconsciousness; epilepsy; and atrophic lesion. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1946
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)

PR2.1756, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1756
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 12 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: headache; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical 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)

PR2.1765, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1765
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 68 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; and spondylitis. 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)

PR2.1768, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1768
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 66 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: fits; epilepsy; and aphasia. Nonsurgical 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)

PR2.1771, 1943-1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1771
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: subarachnoid haemorrhage; fits; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1946
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)