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Dyslexia

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = LHSA-Dott,Use For = Alexia

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.7850, 1949-1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.7850
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; inability to read; ear discharge; facial palsy; vision disorder; aphasia; agraphia; and cerebral atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949-1950

PR3.1793, 1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.1793
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 30 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to head; right-sided hemiplegia; post-traumatic epilepsy; and slight dyslexia and dyscalculia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945

PR4.1094, 1937

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1094
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 50 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: ?cerebral vascular accident; paraesthesiae in arm; alexia; and hemiplegia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937

PR4.1457, 1939

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1457
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral arteriosclerosis; alexia; weakness in left leg; and hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1939

PR4.1536, 1939-1964

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.1536
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, notes, correspondence and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to the head; epilepsy; right hemianopia; and alexia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1939-1964

PR4.2523, 1939-1940

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.2523
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 11 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: congenital word blindness; supraorbital headache; blurry vision; and difficulty writing. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1939-1940

PR2.10094, 1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10094
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 61 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: neoplasm; epilepsy; aphasia; fainting; fits; apractic difficulties; agnosia; hemianopia; alexia; hemiparesis; agraphia; occipito-temporal lesion; and hemihypo-aesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951

PR2.11879, 1952-1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11879
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 10 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: enuresis; fainting fit; congenital word blindness; and mental retardation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1953

PR2.12829, 1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12829
Scope and Contents

Notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: thrombosis of cerebral artery; headache; vomiting; limb weakness; ataxia; homonymous hemianopia; papilloedema; alexia; and agraphia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953

PR2.13371, 1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13371
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: arteriovenous malformation; headaches; vision disorder; vomiting; speech disorder; retention; confusion; reading difficulties; and ataxia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954