University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summaries, photographs, charts, reports, autopsy report, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 43 at first examination in 1925. Conditions mentioned include: glioma; aphasia; oedema; hemianopia; and hypesthesia. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, correspondence, charts and drawings relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 46 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: difficulty with words; vomiting; depression; weakness in hand; meningioma; and papilloedema. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 58 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: pain in neck; numbness; difficulty writing; oedema; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, autopsy report and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; fits; sickness; twitching; dysphasic phenomenon; epileptic attacks; haemorrhagic papilloedema; glioma; astrocytoma; and hemiparetic. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, autopsy report, charts, notes and black and white photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 19 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headache; sickness; dizzy attacks; difficulty with speech and reading; double vision; earache, noise in ear; papilloedema; ataxia; ependymoblastoma; and epileptic attacks. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: oedema; aneurysm; and dysphasia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 6 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: vertical linear wound; unconscious; oedema of both eyelids; intracranial haemorrhage; aphasia; hemiplegia; spasticity of limbs and left frontal scalp laceration. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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.

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, autopsy report, charts, reports, notes and correpondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; dysphasia; memory defect; headache; homonymous field defect; and haemorrhagic oedema of lungs. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.