Muscle Weakness

Typed case summary, chart, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: motor neurone disease; leg weakness; numbness; headache; and paralysis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; prolapsed intervertebral disc; arachnoiditis; headaches; fits; thrombophlebitis; head injury; and leg weakness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, drawing and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: backache; bilateral scalenus medius syndrome; sciatica; weakness; neck pain; paraesthesiae; and prolapsed intervertebral disc. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: leg pain and weakness; hypertension; and Guillaim-Barre type polyneuritis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma; headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; muscle weakness; papilloedema; and hemianopia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: diplopia; arm weakness; ptosis; and myasthenia gravis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral arteriosclerosis; cerebral atrophy; limb weakness; and spasticity. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: progressive muscular spinal atrophy; leg weakness; and paraesthesiae. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; extradural haemorrhage; neck pain; leg weakness; and headache. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: hypertension; leg weakness; extrapyramidal disorder; and Jacob Creutzfeldt's disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.