University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; hypertension; glioma; astrocytoma; numbness; and fits. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, chart and report relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; dizziness; intracranial hypertension; papilloedema; homonymous hemianopia; drowsiness; cerebral neoplasm; astrocytoma; and glioblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial haemorrhage; brainstem compression; astrocytoma; hemiplegia; cerebral tumour; comatose; headache; papilloedema; hypertension; and arteriosclerosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; astrocytoma; intracranial hypertension; headaches; cerebral tumour; and ventricular cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.