University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 58 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: pain in neck; numbness; difficulty writing; oedema; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 33 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: headache; loss of consciousness; poor vision; noise in ear; fits; apathetic; papilloedema; quadrantic homonymous hemianopia; and astrocytoma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, autopsy report and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; fits; sickness; twitching; dysphasic phenomenon; epileptic attacks; haemorrhagic papilloedema; glioma; astrocytoma; and hemiparetic. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from outside Great Britain aged 52 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: oedema; astrocytoma; failure of vision; diplopia; headache; and papilloedema. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report, drawing, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; dizziness; headache; oedema; and oligodendroglioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, autopsy report, reports, correspondence, charts and black-and-white photographs relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; oedema; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hosptial.