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Myopia

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A refractive error in which rays of light entering the EYE parallel to the optic axis are brought to a focus in front of the RETINA when accommodation ( ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR) is relaxed. This results from an overly curved CORNEA or from the eyeball being too long from front to back. It is also called nearsightedness.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.16507, 1956-1958

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.16507
Scope and Contents

Notes, correspondence, charts and reports relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)n aged 9 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: pneumococcal meningitis; hearing loss; and myopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1956-1958
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 3)

PR2.18610, 1958

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.18610
Scope and Contents

Chart, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vertigo; paresis; and cerebral thrombosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1958
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4)

PR2.20482, 1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.20482
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from outside Great Britain aged 51 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: arterial hypertension; right optic nerve lesion; transient blurring of vision; and myopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4)

PR2.20966, 1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.20966
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: headaches (possibly post-traumatic); myopia; scalp neuritis; and anxiety. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4)