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Meningitis

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Inflammation of the coverings of the brain and/or spinal cord, which consist of the PIA MATER; ARACHNOID; and DURA MATER. Infections (viral, bacterial, and fungal) are the most common causes of this condition, but subarachnoid hemorrhage ( HEMORRHAGES, SUBARACHNOID), chemical irritation (chemical MENINGITIS), granulomatous conditions, neoplastic conditions ( CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS), and other inflammatory conditions may produce this syndrome. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 503 Collections and/or Records:

11.1 Female, Single, Over 65 yrs, Senile and Arterio-sclerotic psychoses, Low grade mental defective, November 1945

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/10
Scope and Contents

"This woman was admitted to CR and diagnosed as senility. History of meningitis at 2 - speech and gait affected, mentality of a child of 4, could not dress herself; in bed last two years, has had a stroke, incontinent and paralysed. Parents dead - mother senile before death, father was a farmer. Two surviving sisters, three others died young of croup, TB and meningitis. Home conditions good, harmonious."

Dates: Other: November 1945

12.44 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Low grade mental defective, February 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/11
Scope and Contents

"This girl is on the list of defectives. Nurse says she had meningitis and now just sits doing nothing."


Relatives in survey: 12.45

Dates: Other: February 1946

17.40 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Epilepsy, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/16
Scope and Contents

"Epileptic, fits fairly often. Said to have had meningitis. Nurse does not think fits are typically epilpetic."


Relatives in survey: Father 17.41

Dates: Other: September 1946

44.53 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Maladjusted child, July 1945

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/41
Scope and Contents

"IQ 76. Not good enought to sit the control exam. Drifts about from place to place. A bully. May have had meningitis."


Relatives in survey: 44.51, 44.52

Dates: Other: July 1945

C.S.F. Circulation: Case of spinal ependymoma, c.1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/2/7
Scope and Contents

Demonstration board, Board 7, presented by Professor Dott and Staff with five photographic prints: two x-rays of the brain, one x-ray of the spine, one photograph of a brain section, and one photograph of human tissue, possibly spinal. Notes accompanying the board describe the case. Titled "C.S.F. Circulation: Subarachnoid Fluid Propulsion and Accumulations".

Dates: c.1950

C.S.F. Circulation: Case of Subarachnoid pouch of cisterna magna, c.1950

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Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/2/5
Scope and Contents

Demonstration board, Board 5, presented by Professor Dott and Staff with two illustrations of the brain by Hester Thom, one labelled normal, and one drawing of a patient's condition by Clifford Shepley. Notes accompanying the board state: "? reactive meningistis". Titled "C.S.F. Circulation: Subarachnoid Fluid Propulsion and Accumulations".

Dates: c.1950

C.S.F. Circulation: Case of sylvian pouch formation in adult, c.1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/2/11
Scope and Contents

Demonstration board, Board 12, presented by Professor Dott and Staff with an illustration by Ann L. Brown relating to the case, and two x-rays of a patient's brain. Notes accompanying the board give further information on the case and treatment. Titled "C.S.F. Circulation: Subarachnoid Fluid Propulsion and Accumulations".

Dates: c.1950

C.S.F. Circulation: Case of sylvian pouch formation in child, c.1960

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Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/2/10
Scope and Contents

Demonstration board, Board 11, presented by Professor Dott and Staff with two illustrations of sylvian pouch formation by Ann L. Brown, two x-rays of a young patient's skull and a portrait of the patient. Notes accompanying the board gives limited further details of case. Titled "C.S.F. Circulation: Subarachnoid Fluid Propulsion and Accumulations".

Dates: c.1960

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Turner, 27 December 1915

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/21/28
Scope and Contents

Turner grieves to hear of the death of Darbishire, who he describes as 'a man of scientific worth and promise'. He is concerned to hear of the appearance of cerebro-spinal fever in a military camp.

Dates: 27 December 1915

PR1.4, 1925-1933

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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