University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male pilot officer from outside Great Britain aged 28 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: severe brain injury; jargon aphasia; hemiparesis; unconciousness; cerebral irritation; and retrograde amnesia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: slowness; forgetfulness; disorientation; loss of power in both legs; lowering of speech to a whisper; headache; sickness; intracerebral lesion; oedema; and glioma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: dysphasia; confusion; and cerebral vascular catastrophe. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, chart, notes, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: thrombosis; confusion; dysphasia; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, reports, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: dysphasia; ptosis; confusion; thrombophlebitis; paraphasia; and subarachnoid haemorrhage. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Notes, typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; confusion; aphasia; and insomnia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, notes, chart and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: Alzheimer's disease; confusion; expressive aphasia; and forgetfulness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, photograph, autopsy report, charts, reports, note and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma; limb spasticity; basal ganglia tumour; headache; vomiting; papilloedema; drowsiness; confusion; hemiparesis; incontinence; dysphasia; Addison's disease; secondary tumours in brain and adrenal glands; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment...

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Typed case summary, notes, chart and report relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fractured skull; extradural clot; drowsiness; concussion; confusion; aphasia; and headache. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, chart, reports and correspondence relating to male patient fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: malignant glioma; intracranial pressure; papilloedema; dysphasia; confusion; cerebral tumour; hemiparesis; sixth nerve palsy; hemianopia; and bronchopneumonia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.