Spinal Cord Injuries

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, autopsy report, chart and correspondence relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 45 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: lacerated wound on thorax; spinal injury; paraplegia; and wound infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; contusion of spinal cord at cervical level; temporary quadriplegia; and weakness in limbs. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: traumatic lesion of cervical spine; congenital ptosis; motor defect; head injury; and spinal cord injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: ruptured myelo-meningocele; hydrocephalus; lumbar cord damage; and spina bifida. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: back injury; hysteria; paralysis; unconsciousness; low back pain; headaches; and urinary retention. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, note and correspondence relating to male from outside Great Britain aged 31 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: sequelae of spinal cord injury; residual paralysis; incontinence; and impotence. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, notes, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: flexor spasms; fracture dislocation of lower dorsal spine; contusion of spinal cord; and spastic eversion of feet. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, x-ray films, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hyperextension injury to cervical spinal cord; backache; disc protrusions; and loss of power in limbs. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 68 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: paraparesis; severe cervical cord contusion; osteophytosis; hyperflexion injury; and disc prolapse. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cervical spinal cord injury; quadriplegia; spinal contusion; neurogenic bladder; and bedsores. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.