Intellectual Disability

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: severe concussional head injury with residual intellectual and personality changes; drowsiness; and nerve palsy of ocular movement. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 18 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating gunshot wound to the skull; impairment of intellectual functions such as writing, reading, calculation and spatial orientation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: mental deficiency ("dullness"); hysterical amnesia; chronic otitis media; and syncopal attack. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male clerk from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: severe brain injury; sub-clinical epileptic manifestation; vomiting; and post-traumatic intellectual deterioration. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male pensioner from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: post-traumatic epilepsy following head injury; and slight intellectual impairment. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to male pensioner from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 22 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to head (left parietal region); complete right homonymous hemianopia; and intellectual impairment. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: frontal head injury; brain damage; gross intellectual impairment; and large bone defect. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and notes relating to male pensioner from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy (probably post-traumatic); possibly abscess from penetrating gunshot wound; headache; and intellectual and emotional deterioration. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 25 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to the head (left parietal region); tuberculous spondylitis of lumbar spine; intellectual impairment; and attacks of probably epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, chart and correspondence relating to male airman from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; left cerebral abscess; central atrophy; and mental deterioration. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.