University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 23 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: paralysis; blindness; headache; aphasia; and dysarthria. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 40 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; headaches; blindness; aphasia; unconsciousness; vomiting; and weakness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male airman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: severe head injury; traumatic detachment of retina into left eyeball; loss of vision in left eye; and residual dysphasia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male soldier aged 22 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: severe head injury; hemiplegia; aphasia; and loss of vision in right eye. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, correspondence and report relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: polyarteritis nodosa; oedema; hemiparesis; petechiae; aphasia; cerebral embolism; and blindness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; depression; blindness; hemiplegia; and dysphasia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: extradural carcinoma; neoplasm; trigeminal neuralgia; facial pain; sixth nerve paresis; vision disorder; scotoma; deafness; sensory defects; blindness; deafness; tinnitus; and aphasia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: homonymous hemianopia; blindness; seizures; dysphasia; weakness; coma; personality change; memory defect; haemorrhage; arteriosclerosis; thrombosis; and neoplasm. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: malignant glioma (left temporal); progressive weakness right limbs; motor aphasia; and blindness in right eye. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.