University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; diplopia; amnesia; aphasia; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, report, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 14 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; seizures; headaches; and amnesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; headaches; dizziness; vomiting; amnesia; speech disorder; homonymous hemianopia; and papilloedema. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; headaches; weakness; nausea; dyspepsia; dizziness; amnesia; vision disorders; head injury; and hemianopia. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, reports, postmortem report and photographs relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; epilepsy; seizures; unconsciousness; astrocytoma; hemianopsia; vision disorders; nystagmus; amnesia; tuberculosis spine; and back pain. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, reports, postmortem reports and photographs relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; confusion; fainting attacks; epilepsy; seizures; amnesia; headaches; vision disorder; tinnitus; vertigo; and haematuria. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, postmortem report, charts and photographs relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: chronic cerebral abscess; astrocytoma; epilepsy; seizures; unconsciousness; headache; tinnitus; nausea; amnesia; speech disorder; papilloedema; and head injury. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; headaches; dysphasia; amnesia; and deafness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 48 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cystic astrocytoma; weakness; gait disorder; vomiting; weight loss; amnesia; speech disorder; language defects; hemiparesis; subdural haematoma; epilepsy; seizures; and osteoarthritis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, reports, autopsy reports, charts and photographs relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; epilepsy; seizures; memory loss; weight loss; and mental deterioration. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.