Paresis

Typed case summary, photographs, reports, charts, note and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; epileptic fit; headache; hemiparesis; speech difficulties; and memory difficulties. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 30 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma; headache; vomiting; facial paresis; drowsiness; and hemiparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, notes, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: anaplastic malignant tumour; secondary neoplasm; paraplegia; spinal cord compression; spinal tumour; paralysis of bladder and bowel; upper dorsal kyphosis; leg spasms; and ankylosing spondylitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, report and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; papilloedema; headache; hemiparesis; blackouts; epilepsy; facial palsy; and confusion. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; blackouts; homonymous defect; spastic hemiparesis; and exhaustion. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: skull fractures; subarachnoid haemorrhages; brain jury; hemiparesis; incontinence; and unconsciousness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma of brain; incontinence; hemiparesis; speech difficulties; increased intracranial pressure; and drowsiness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, drawing, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: subarachnoid haemorrhage; extradural haematoma; headache; photophobia; hemiparesis; arteriovenous malformation; brain stem damage; Jacksonian epileptic attacks; ischaemia; and raised intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, x-ray film, drawing, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: headache; subarachnoid haemorrhage; aneurysm; thrombosis; homonymous field defect; paralysis of left limb; third nerve palsy; and sixth nerve palsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, report, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 54 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombosis; bronchial pneumonia; myocardial infarction; limb weakness; hemipaeresis; epilepsy; and cerebral atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.