University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; astrocytoma; papilloedema; meningitis; and brain abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, autopay report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 4 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: fits; intracranial pressure; posterior fossa abscess; hydrocephalus; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report, photographs, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; hemiplegia; hemiparesis; astrocytoma; subdural frontal abscess; and oligodendroglioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, postmortem report, charts and photographs relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: chronic cerebral abscess; astrocytoma; epilepsy; seizures; unconsciousness; headache; tinnitus; nausea; amnesia; speech disorder; papilloedema; and head injury. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.