Paresis

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; hemiparesis; and global aphasia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 63 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: trigeminal neuralgia; face pain; cerebellar type nystagmus; spastic paresis; and degenerative disease of central nervous system. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 71 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: malignant cerebral tumour; spastic hemiparesis; astrocytoma; and glioblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hemiparesis with slight spasticity; thrombosis; and Buerger's disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 35 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: multiple cerebral abscesses; bronchiectasis; meningitis; papilloedema; ptosis; brain oedema; hemiparesis; and toxaemia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, report, note and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 42 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral embolus; subarachnoid haemorrhage; aneurysm; mitral stenosis; hemiparesis; dysarthria; and degenerative vascular disease. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: subdural haematoma; head injury; headache; hemiparesis; Jacksonian-like epileptic attacks; degenerative vascular procecsss; and phlebothrombosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Note and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 7 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: arrested hydrocephalus; and spastic tetraparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, x-ray film and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: aneurysm; subarachnoid haemorrhage; trigeminal pain; headache; hemiparesis; dysphasia; and vascular hypotension. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and postmortem report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: bronchial carcinoma; secondary carcinoma; hemiparesis; disc lesion; syphilis; intracranial lesion; epilepsy; seizure; nausea; vomiting; oedema; and hepatitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.