Spinal Cord Diseases

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male patientfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 64 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: urine retention; progressive paraplegia; arteriosclerotic myelopathy; limb spasticity; and cord lesion. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, report, chart and correspondence relating to female patient fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 67 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: degenerative affection of spinal cord; hypertonia; spastic signs; limb weaknes; prolapsed intervertebral disc; and osteoarthritis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report, charts and correspondence relating to male fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 52at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: hypotonic limbs; paralysis; pulmonary collapse; polyneuritis; papilloedema; intracranial tension; spinal cord lesion; urine retention; myelitis; vascular anomaly; and degeneration of spinal cord. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 69 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: prostate cancer; epidural metastasis; constipation; oedema; vascular spinal cord accident; and lesion. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Notes and correspondence relating to male patientfrom Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) first examined in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: paraparesis; osteoarthritis; demyelinating disease of spinal cord. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary and reports relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: transverse myelitis; paravertebral infection; thrombophlebtitis; back pain; numbness; paralysis; and pachymeningitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 42 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; "giddy turns"; abrupt changes of mood; and unidentified organic disease of the spinal cord. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 39 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis with spinal epiduritis following diagnostic lumbar puncture; and bifrontal headaches. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: ?degeneration of the cord; ?peripheral neuritis; cholecystitis; shoulder pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 26 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: spinal cord lesion; paraplegia; neurotrophic oedema of legs; and lack of bladder control. No treatment given. Patient discharged.