Muscle Weakness

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; unconsciousness; weakness; quadriplegia; gait disorder; double vision; dysphasia; hypertonus; amnesia; and paraesthesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: malignant hypertension; headache; vomiting; loss of vision; facial weakness; hypertensive retinopathy; and papilloedema. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and chart relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: arteriosclerosis; hypertension; subarachnoid haemorrhage; seizures; weakness; speech disorder; headache; and vasospasm. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: spondylosis; optic neuritis; vision disorder; weakness; ulnar neuritis; osteophytosis; spasticity; disseminated sclerosis; and numbness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: spheroidal ridge meningioma; headache; unconsciousness; vomiting; depression; sleep disorder; weakness; paraphasia; blackouts; epilepsy; and venous thrombosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 58 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: hand injury; weakness; pain; paraesthesia; motor neurone disease; hypertension; renal failure; cardiac failure; and dysarthria. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: hyperaesthesia; and weakness in legs. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: polyneuritis; ataxia; weakness of upper limbs; paraesthesiae; tuberculosis; and peripheral neuritis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: hysterical loss of power in hands; head injury; and analgesia of head, neck, upper limbs and chest. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; ataxia; nystagmus; and weakness of legs. No treatment given. Patient discharged.