Constipation

Scope and Contents Typed case summaries and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2 at first examination in 1923. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; acidosis; and constipation. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 55 at first examination in 1928. Conditions mentioned include: constipation; and encephalitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Case summary and correspondence relating to female housewife from west Edinburgh aged 25 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculosis of the abdomen, constipation. No family history of tuberculosis. No treatment given.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, notes, photographs, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; pleurisy; constipation; intraspinal tumour; and neurofibromatosis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Case summary relating to female over-hauler in paper mill from Lothian (Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: constipation, anaemia, cough with sputum. No family history of...

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 35 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: unsteady in her gait; numbness in hands and feet; incontinence of urine; constipated; pain on face; hypotonia; trigeminal neuralgia; and disseminated sclerosis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Case summary relating to female housewife from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 26 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: constipation, tuberculosis I-IIB. Family history of tuberculosis. No treatment given.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: motor weakness; sensory impairment; involuntary movement of legs; trouble with speech; paroxysmal pain in left side of head and upper extremity; micturition problems; constipation; disseminated sclerosis; and lateral nystagmus. Non-surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 66 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: pain in leg and tuber ischii; inability to stand; incontinence; herniated nucleus pulposis; interathecal tumour; and spinal fibro-chondroma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headache; facial pain; depression; and neurotic personality. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.