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Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; cerebral tumour; brain swelling; and bronchopneumonia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; cerebral tumour; brainstem ischaemia; brain swelling; anosmia; homonymous hemianopia; dysphasia; and mental changes. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.