Dyslexia

Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 65 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: homonymous hemianopia; hemianaesthesia; impairement of intellectual functions; hypertension; cerebral vascular catastrophe; and alexia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: alexia; hemianopia; depression; memory defects; cerebral thrombophlebitis; and headache. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 67 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombosis; speech impairment; reading impairment; acalculia; inability to tell right from left; and vascular lesion. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Vote of thanks by Norman Dott to Mrs S. Childs after his lecture to Scottish Association for the Study of Dyslexia, dated March 1969. The material includes reference to John Hunter as a likely sufferer from dyslexia.