University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 33 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; frontal headache; fits; epileptic attacks; motor weakness; numbness in hand; weakness in limbs; neuro-degenerative epilepsy; and aphasia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 28 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; dizziness; left otitis; numbness; facial weakness; epilepsy; fits; spinal otorrhoea; nausea; hemiparesis; aphasia; abscess; and cholesteatoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts and photographs relating to male staff sergeant fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: compound skull fracture; severe concussional head injury; dysphasia; left hemiparesis; unconsciousness; somnolence; attacks of fainting; and minor epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male aircraftman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 21 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombo-phlebitis; fainting; epilepsy; memory loss; and aphasia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: papilloedema; fainting; headache; intracranial pressure; aphasia; and meningioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: paralysis; aphasia; collapse; and cerebral embolism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from outside Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 40 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: right hemiplegia; aphasia; and fainting. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 61 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: neoplasm; epilepsy; aphasia; fainting; fits; apractic difficulties; agnosia; hemianopia; alexia; hemiparesis; agraphia; occipito-temporal lesion; and hemihypo-aesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.