University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, chart, note, photograph, correspondence and autopsy report relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; hand tremor; olfactory aura; facial paresis; glioblastoma multiforme; glioblastoma; anosmia; homonomous hemianopia; defective memory; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, autopsy reports, chart and photographs relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma with malignant metaphasia; headaches; seizures; aphasia; gait disorders; tremor; and incontinence. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, report, autopsy report, charts and photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: right temporal astrocytoma; tremor; unconsciousness; seizures; gait disorder; dizziness; headache; and tinnitus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: tremor; progressive extra-pyramidial syndrome; lesions in basal ganglia; paralysis agitans; and infiltrating astrocystoma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; epilepsy; seizures; confusion; altered behaviour; homonymous hemianopia; drowsiness; hemiparesis; papilloedema; chest infection; gait disorder; and tremor. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.