Disorders of Excessive Somnolence

Scope and Contents Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; drowsiness; headache; and vomiting. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 13 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: fatigue; somnolence; encephalitis; obesity; and seizures. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, autopsy reports and reports relating to female from Scotland ( outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headache; vomiting; unconsciousness; drowsy; poor concentration and memory; hands weak and shaky; obstructive hydrocephalus; suprasellar cyst; pituitary tumour; adenoma; bitemporal hemianopia; somnolence; and weight loss. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from outside Great Britain aged 42 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: fatigue; somnolence; failure of vision; diplopia; epidermoid cyst; and craniopharyngioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, report, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 44 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; hypersomnolence; and glioblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Notes and correspondence relating to male patient first examined in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: somnolence; ptosis; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fits; somnolence; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: somnolence; headache; papilloma; and carcinoma. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: reticulosis; failure of vision; cyst; somnolence; tumour; proptosis; and Hodgkin's disease. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 54 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: incontinence; confusion; drowsiness; tremors; and pneumonia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.