University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, notes, reports, drawings, photographs, charts nurses' report books and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 16 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; paresis; medullo-blastoma cerebelli; thrombocytopoenic purpura; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, photographs, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 9 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: peri-cerebellar leptomeningitis; astrocytoma; headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; ataxia; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 12 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: squint; vomiting; pinealoma; hydrocephalus; angioma; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 18 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: headache; dizziness; aphasia; astrocytoma; hydrocephalus; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 20 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: nausea; vomiting; visual failure; optic neuritis; hydrocephalus; glioma; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 10 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 23 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; staggering gait; hemianopia; hydrocephalus; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; meningitis; hydrocephalus; headache; cyst; astrocytoma; and glioblastoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 7 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; astrocytoma; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 31 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; diplopia; headache; papilloedema; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.