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Agnosia

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Loss of the ability to comprehend the meaning or recognize the importance of various forms of stimulation that cannot be attributed to impairment of a primary sensory modality. Tactile agnosia is characterized by an inability to perceive the shape and nature of an object by touch alone, despite unimpaired sensation to light touch, position, and other primary sensory modalities.,Created For = LHSA-Dott,Use For = Agnosia for Pain / Smell / Taste / Temperature

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

PR3.41, 1940-1941

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.41
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to male sapper from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: headache; giddiness; numbness of hand; astereognosis; systolic murmur; breathlessness; hemi-hypaesthesia; vaso-motor reactivity defect; and migraine. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1940-1941

PR2.377, 1941

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.377
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: hit head; vomiting; frontal headache; pain in back of neck; concussional head injury; and loss of smell. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941

PR2.492, 1941-1961

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.492
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, photographs and charts relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 31 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; paresis; epilepsy; agnosia; and aphasia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1961

PR2.880, 1942-1943

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.880
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 56 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: anosmia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1943

PR3.197, 1941

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.197
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to male firemanfrom outside Great Britain aged 35 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull; local brain injury; partial astereognosis; and slight spastic dyssynergia in fingers. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941

PR3.482, 1942

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.482
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and notes relating to male privatefromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 34 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: severe cerebral contusion; cerebral atrophy; aphasia; dizziness; intellectual deterioration; memory retention defect; apraxia; agnosia; hypertonicity in right extremities; and head injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR3.527, 1942

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.527
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male privatefromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound; compound fracture of skull; infection of brain; hemiparesis; astereognosis; facial paresis; fractured wrist; and nystagmus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR3.599, 1942-1947

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.599
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and report relating to maleflight sergeant fromoutside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: multiple gunshot wounds; scalp wound; motor aphasia; papilloedema; dysarthria; facial weakness; skull fracture; right hand astereognosis; hemiparesis; hemi-anaesthesia; and cerebral atrophy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1947

PR3.688, 1942

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.688
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, correspondence and drawing relating to male second lieutenantfromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headache; lumbar pain; amnesia; sciatic neuritus; astereognosis left hand; spine fracture; sciatica; and anxiety. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR2.2973, 1944-1945

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2973
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: hysterical anaesthesia; stiff neck; paraesthesiae; and astereognosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1945