Muscle Weakness

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: spinal adhesive arachnoiditis; spinal cord compression; meningitis; leg weakness; and cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: arm weakness; motor neurone disease; arterio-sclerosis; and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 73 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: spastic paraparesis; secondary carcinoma; shoulder pain; limb stiffness; and limb weakness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, report and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: spinal meningioma; spinal cord compression; leg weakness; and spastic paaparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, drawing, report and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 68 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: spinal meningioma; leg weakness; unsteadiness; and backache. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, report and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 68 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: shoulder pain; spinal metastatic carcinoma; limb weakness; and spinal cord compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: diplopia; muscle weakness; mid-brain encephalitis; and disseminated sclerosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: numbness; leg weakness; failure of vision; facial paresis; hemianopia; thrombotic lesion; and paraplegia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 56 in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: leg weakness; spasticity; and disseminated sclerosis. No treatment given. Patient not examined.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: ataxia; limb weakness; tinnitus; and encephalitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.