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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:

PR2.13565, 1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13565
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.

Dates: 1954

PR2.13764, 1954-1957

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13764
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.

Dates: 1954-1957

PR2.15301, 1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.15301
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.

Dates: 1955

Vote of thanks to Mrs S. Childs, March 1969

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.265
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.

Dates: March 1969