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Aphasia

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. This condition is caused by diseases which affect the language areas of the dominant hemisphere. Clinical features are used to classify the various subtypes of this condition. General categories include receptive, expressive, and mixed forms of aphasia.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 868 Collections and/or Records:

PR1.4, 1925-1933

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.4
Scope and Contents

Typed case summaries, correspondence, reports, charts and photographs relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians), aged 27 at first examination in 1925. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; aphasia; dysmetria; jaundice; syphilis; and meningitis. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged

Dates: 1925-1933

PR3.3, 1939-1940

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.3
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, notes, correspondence and report relating to male R.A.F. flying officer from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1939 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; paralysis; blurred vision; spasticity; aphasia; and compound skull fracture. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1939-1940

PR3.4, 1940-1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.4
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, note, correspondence, and report relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: headache; defective vision; meningioma; aphasia; diplopia; angioblastoma; hemiparesis; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1940-1943

PR1.14, 1925

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.14
Scope and Contents

Notes, reports, and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, first examined in 1925. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; aphasia; hemianopia; and petechial haemorrhages. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1925

PR1.19, 1925-1926

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.19
Scope and Contents

Typed case summaries, photographs, charts, reports, autopsy report, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 43 at first examination in 1925. Conditions mentioned include: glioma; aphasia; oedema; hemianopia; and hypesthesia. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1925-1926

PR1.85, 1928-1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.85
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes, nurses' report book and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1928. Conditions mentioned include: syphilitic encephalitis; headache; dysarthria; focal cerebral malaria; aphasia; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1928-1945

PR2.13, 1940-1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; eye pain; dizziness; dysphasia; headache; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1940-1953

PR2.34, 1940

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.34
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; failure of vision; aphasia; and glioblastoma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1940

PR2.78, 1941

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.78
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 17 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; fits; aphasia; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941

PR3.31, 1940

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.31
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and reports relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: drowsiness; speech disturbance; headache; homonymous hemianopia; facial paresis; aphasia; glioblastoma multiforme; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1940