University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summaries, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from outside Great Britain aged 41 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: naso-pharyngeal squamous epithelioma; sixth nerve palsy; numbness in mouth; and diplopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 68 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: carcinoma colon; metastases in gasserian ganglion; trigeminal paraesthesiae; and sixth nerve palsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: increase intracranial pressure; headache; bilateral papilloedema; right abducens palsy; paresis; hypoglossal palsy; fulminating bronchopneumonia; chordoma; blurred vision; blindness; ptosis; obesity; haemorrhage; vomiting; venous sinus thrombosis; arterial hypertension; and carcinoma of the rectum....

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Typed case summary, notes, autopsy report, charts and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: secondary carcinoma; papilloedema; 6th nerve paresis; and carcinoma of pelvic colon. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: extradural carcinoma; neoplasm; trigeminal neuralgia; facial pain; sixth nerve paresis; vision disorder; scotoma; deafness; sensory defects; blindness; deafness; tinnitus; and aphasia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: carcinoma; 6th nerve palsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: anaplastic carcinoma of nasopharynx; sixth nerve palsy; vomiting; and headache. No treatment given. Patient discharged.