Spasm

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, reports, postmortem report and photographs relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; brain haemorrhage; epilepsy; clonic facial twitch; seizures; spasms; unconsciousness; hemiparesis; headaches; facial weakness; and personality change. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: flexor leg spasms; disseminated sclerosis; and paraparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: lower lumbar disc protrusion; erector spinae spasm. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fit; headache; nausea; convulsions; incontinence; and hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 18 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: blackouts; fits; hysteria; unconsciousness; facial palsy; convulsions; and confusion. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: tic douloureux; trigeminal neuralgia; spasms; coronary infarction; ptosis; paraesthesiae; and facial pain. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; post traumatic amnesia; spasm; and difficulty using left leg. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial venous thrombophlebitis; papilloedema; anaemia; Jacksonian epilepsy; infection of frontal sinus; and koilonychia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: chronic spinal epidural abscess; spinal vascular anomaly; spastic paraplegia; incontinence; transvere myelitis; paralysis; kidney infection; neurogenic bladder and flexor spasms. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, note, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 72 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: muscular spasms in lower limbs; Parkinsonian tremor; extra pyramidal syndrome; spinal cord disease; syringomyelia; kyphoscoliosis; and osteoporosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.