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Hypochondriasis

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.12899, 1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12899
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 35 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hypochondriacal neurosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953

PR2.13248, 1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13248
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: personality change; eye injury; miner's nystagmus; and hypochondriacal. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954

PR2.13341, 1953-1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13341
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: depression; homonymous hemianopia; head injury; headache; progressive loss of vision; and hypochondical. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1954

PR2.13342, 1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13342
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: depression; facial pain; and hypochondical attitude. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954

PR2.13349, 1953-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13349
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: depression; and hypochondriacal complaints. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1954

PR2.13720, 1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13720
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, note and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; facial neuralgic migraine; involutional depression; anxiety; and hypochondriacal tendencies. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954

PR2.13746, 1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13746
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians first examined in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: hypochondriasis; depression; delusions; and confusion. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954

PR2.14210, 1954-1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14210
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; depressive hypochondriacal tendency. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954-1955

PR2.14630, 1954-1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14630
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; sciatica; and hypochondriasis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954-1955

PR2.14883, 1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14883
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 61 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral vasospasm; hypochondriasis; and forehead pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955