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Muscular Dystrophies

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A heterogeneous group of inherited MYOPATHIES, characterized by wasting and weakness of the SKELETAL MUSCLE. They are categorized by the sites of MUSCLE WEAKNESS; AGE OF ONSET; and INHERITANCE PATTERNS.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

32.53 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, Other organic psychoses (muscular dystrophy), March 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/31
Scope and Contents

"This woman has disseminiated sclerosis. The whole family suffers from a peculiar type of muscular dystrophy."


Children: 32.54, 32.55

Dates: Other: March 1946

32.54 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Other organic psychoses (muscular dystrophy), February 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/31
Scope and Contents

"This lad has had meningitis - a "wee sober boy" if he was educated. Can't speak properly, difficult to understand, temper very bad when tormented by the other boys. Now on a farm. New house, clean, harmonious. Weakness thought to be on the mother's side. PAO says this is a decent and hard working man; everybody tried to get a rise out of him. Dr - mentally defective."


Mother: 32.53 sibling: 32.51

Dates: Other: February 1946

32.55 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Other organic psychoses (muscular dystrophy), March 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/31
Scope and Contents

"Dr says this brother is a bit soft too. Thinks he is a labourere. Has recenlty been x-rayed for TB."


Siblings: 32.54 Mother 32.53

Dates: Other: March 1946

PR4.95, 1939

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.95
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: limp; atrophy; and muscular dystrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1939

PR4.97, 1940

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.97
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 6 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: gait disorder; and muscular dystrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1940

PR2.108, 1941-1957

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.108
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 35 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: Charcot-Pierre Marie muscular atrophy; peroneal atrophy; paraesthesiae; and muscular dytrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1957

PR2.1297, 1942-1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1297
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: foot numbness; poliomyelitis; paresis; and muscular dystrophy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1943

PR2.1875, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1875
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 22 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: muscular dystrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943

PR2.1896, 1943-1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1896
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: muscular dystrophy; and muscular atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1951

PR2.2041, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2041
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: Charcot-Pierre-Marie-Tooth muscular atrophy; motor weakness; and muscular dystrophies. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943