Muscle Weakness

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 65 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: muscular weakness; tremor; and myasthenia gravis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: progressive pyramidal tract disease; muscle fatigue; and numbness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 33 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: headache; hemianopia; brain swelling; leg weakness; hemiparesis; vascular disturbance; and atrophy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 30 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: hemiparesis; disseminated sclerosis; diplopia; and muscle weakness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: polyneuronitis; back pain; leg weakness; and polyradiculitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: numbness; atrophy; muscle weakness; and neuritis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 32 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: glioma; fatigue; limb weakness; spinal tumour; numbness; and ependymoblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 62 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: polyneuritis; muscle weakness; and Guillain Barre syndrome. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: hand injury; hand weakness; and hypoaesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Case summary relating to female student from east Edinburgh aged 21 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: anaemia, debility, recent tonsillitis. No family history of tuberculosis. No treatment given.