Gait Disorders, Neurologic

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: weakness of left arm and hand; lameness of left leg; and syringomyelia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: headache; squint; clumsy gait; and hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 13 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: arachnoiditis; difficulty walking; headache; unconsciousness; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 4 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; unsteadiness; vomiting; headache; and neck pain. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 7 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; joint swelling; headache; extrapyramidal syndrome; and unsteadiness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; headache; dizziness; metastases; and carcinoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, reports, notes, drawings, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 20 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; and cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; numbness; syringomyelia; limb weakness; neck pain; back pain; shoulder pain; unsteadiness; and cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: backache; unsteadiness; and prolapsed intervertebral disc. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; drop-foot; head injury; and spastic hemiparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.