Dyspnea

Scope and Contents Case summary relating to male labourer from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 23 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: cough with sputum, pain right chest, dyspnoea. No family history of tuberculosis. No...

Scope and Contents Case summary relating to male photographer from south west Edinburgh aged 28 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: cough with sputum, dyspnoea, pain left chest. Family history of tuberculosis....

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Case summary relating to male patient from east Edinburgh aged 42 at examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: cough with sputum, dyspnoea, subject to bronchitis. Family history of tuberculosis. No treatment given.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, photographs, report and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 63 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: right temporal glioblastoma; headache; drowsiness; papilloedema; breathlessness; and intracranial hypertension. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, charts and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: malignant hypertension; headache; and breathlessness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: arterial hypertension; breathlessness; and fatigue. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, report, notes and correspondence relating to male aged 56 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: headache; hypertension; dyspnoea; cor pulmonale; crdiac failure; and emphysema. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and chart relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 18 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound of chest and arm; paraplegia; bilateral pleural effusion; and dyspnoea. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy probably due to post-thrombolic cicatrix; dyspnoea; and bilateral otitis media. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and chart relating to female WRNS member from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: febrile myositis (aetiology unknown); dyspnoea; and chest pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.