University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; failure of vision; brain-stem haemorrhage; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical 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, photographs, autopsy report, report, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma of the pons; 6th nerve palsy; dysdiadochokinesia; and terminal haemorrhage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 11 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; fits; hemiparesis; haemmorrhagic glioma; intracerebral haemorrhage; and homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; brainstem haemorrhages; bronchopneumonia; epilepsy; aphasia; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Demonstration board, Board 10, with five photographic prints showing the brain and sections of the brain stem. Notes accompanying the board describe the case. Titled "The lesions: with obvious haemorrhage".