Mental Disorders

Typed case summary, charts, note and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; and psychological disturbance. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: stuttering of speech; and schizophrenic phase. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: back injury; hysteria; paralysis; unconsciousness; low back pain; headaches; and urinary retention. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, chart and report relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: psychoneurosis; epilepsy; seizures; weakness; pain; fainting; cyst; herpes zoster; and tremor. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: fractured dislocation of spine; head injury; unconsciousness; amnesia; hypoaesthesia; spasticity; psychosis; and retention of urine. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: mental disorder; palpitation attacks; nightmares; sleep paralysis; anxiety; impulsive urges. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, reports, postmortem reports and photographs relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; confusion; fainting attacks; epilepsy; seizures; amnesia; headaches; vision disorder; tinnitus; vertigo; and haematuria. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hypertensive encephalopathy; depression; apathy; aphasia; cerebral lesion; pain; amnesia; and incontinence. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 11 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: severe cerebral contusion; head injury; subconjunctival haemorrhage; mental disorder; and speech disorder. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 33 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; emotional disorder; and Meniere's disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.