University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male sergeantfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 35 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; confusional state; residual personality change; atrophy of brain substance; amnesia; gross impairement of emotional reactions; and speech difficulities. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: severe head injuries; brain damage; compound skull fracture; headache; personality change; amnesia; hypertonus; and infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull; head injury; unconsciousness; epilepsy; seizure; incontinence; paraparesis; aphasia; amnesia; photophobia; personality change; weakness; and hypertonus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, report and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; weakness; personality change; amnesia; gait disorder; incontinence; vomiting; and tremor. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, charts and report relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: masked cortical atrophy; personality change; dysarthria; aphasia; amnesia; unconsciousness; rheumatic myocarditis; and mitral stenosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and reports relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: mental atrophy; rheumatic pains; personality change; gait disorder; and aphasia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: through-and-through bullet wound to the brain; residual left homonymous hemianopia; post-traumatic personality change; and post-traumatic amnesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to scalp with severe cerebral contusion; right facial weakness; post-traumatic personality changes; and post-traumatic amnesia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and reports relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: desseminated lesions of central nervous system; demylinating disease; pain; gait disorder; headaches; dizziness; vision disorder; amnesia; personality change; head injury; and hypoaesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial venous sinous thrombosis; fractured skull; head injury; epilepsy; seizures; vomiting; headache; amnesia; photophobia; mental disorder; personality change; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.