Hypertension

Typed correspondence, notes, report and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: paranoid psychosis; personality change; sleep disorder; depression; loss of concentration; hypertension; and cerebral deterioraton. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 72 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; subdural; unconsciousness; headache; hypertension; hypertensive encephalopathy; and deafness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombosis; intracranial pressure; confusion; homonymous hemianopia; hypertensive encephalopathy; and hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, postmortem reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: coronary infarct; breathlessness; vision disorder; high blood pressure; incontinence; papilloedema; and chronic venous congestion. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: paraparesis; spinal lesion; amnesia; back pain; wedging of lumbar vertebra; spinal deformity; vomiting; metastasis; gait disorder; and hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 72 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: paroxysmal trigeminal neuralgia; facial pain; high blood pressure; and headaches. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 66 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: central pain; hyperalgesia; hypertension; facial palsy; cerebrovascular lesion; and residual hemiplegia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 48 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; and vascular hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: hemiparesis; pseudo-bulbar palsy; cerebral vascular catastrophes; dysarthria; emotional over-reaction; hypersalivation; and arterial hypertension. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, x-ray films, report, chart, notes, drawing and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: aneurysm; epilepsy; subarachnoid bleeding; dysphasia; and hemiparesis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.