Muscle Weakness

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Typed case summary, charts, report, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: headache; leg weakness; cyst; meningioma; epilepsy; and fits. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: muscle weakness; and motor neuron disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: leg weakness; dizziness; peroneal progressive muscular atrophy; Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease; degenerative disorder; and hypertrophic polyneuritis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: light headedness; vasomotor instability; and weakness of lower limbs. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, reports and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculosis of spine; stiffness; back pain; and weakness in legs. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; weakness; double vision; and memory loss. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Case summary relating to male brewery worker from east Edinburgh aged 32 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: weak. No family history of tuberculosis. No treatment given.

Scope and Contents Case summary and correspondence relating to female housewife from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 26 at examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: cough, feels weak, tuberculosis I- fibro-calcifio. No family history of tuberculosis. No...

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Case summary relating to male patient from east Edinburgh aged 21 at examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: cough with sputum, debility. Family history of tuberculosis. No treatment given.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 48 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral arteriosclerosis; leg weakness; paresis; and head injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.