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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 505 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

 Item
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

 Item
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