Paresis

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male pensioner from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 35 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral embolism due to mitral valve lesion; right hemiparesis; unconsciousness; and severe dysphasia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, charts and report relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 23 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: acute multiloculated abscess in right temporal lobe; left flaccid hemiparesis; left hemianopia; and drowsiness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male driver from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating wound to the skull (left parietal region); resultant right hemiparesis; dysphasia; and acalculia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating gunshot wound in skull and left temporal region; dysphasia; right hemiparesis; and hemianopsia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; resultant left hemiparesis; and headaches. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound of head; compound fracture of skull; right hemiparesis; and hemi-hypoaesthesia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male signalman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating gunshot wound to skull; resultant recurrent bacillus pyocyaneus meningitis; spastic hemiparesis; and hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 44 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; post-traumatic epilepsy; slight left sensory and motor impairment of extremities; and left hemiparesis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male architectural draughtsman from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 28 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; muscle weakness; spastic paraparesis; and syringomyelia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male airman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: severe contusional head injury; resultant right hemiparesis; dysarthria; and memory impairment. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.