Multiple Sclerosis

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; slurring dysphasia; and spastic gait. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Report, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: ataxia; scotoma; disseminated sclerosis; and hypertonus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: paroxysmal trigeminal neuralgia; and disseminated sclerosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, note, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 43 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: subacute disseminated encephalo-myelitis of virus infection origin; disseminated sclerosis; vertigo; nystagmus; diplopia; anorexia; fatigue; and 6th nerve paresis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; optic neuritis; nystagmus; papilloedema; limb weakness; and limb hypertonus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; paraesthesia; vision disorder; weakness; amnesia; and tiredness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and postmortem report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: bronchial carcinoma; secondary carcinoma; hemiparesis; disc lesion; syphilis; intracranial lesion; epilepsy; seizure; nausea; vomiting; oedema; and hepatitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, report, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: vasomotor hypertension; arteriosclerosis; peripheral vascular disease; spastic gait; spastic tetraparesis; cervical disc lesion; and disseminated sclerosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, note and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; virus encephalitis; brainstem lesion; midbrain tumour; paresis of abduction of eye; diplopia; unstable gait; and dysarthria. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, note, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; unsteady gait; paraesthesiae; pleocytosis; spastic foot drop; and polyneuro-myelitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.