University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 78 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: squamous epithelioma; headache; diplopia; arteriosclerosis; ophthalmoplegia; blindness; and ptosis. Surgical and nonsurgical 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, charts, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial metastasis; headache; vomiting; weakness; of lower face; primary bronchogenic carcinoma; papilloedema; incontinence; and blindness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 56 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: secondary carcinoma; exophthalmos; blindness; post traumatic supra-orbital neuritis; epilepsy; headache; facial palsy; mixed lachrymal gland tumour; polydipsia; and polyuria. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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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, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 54 at first examination in 1957. Conditions mentioned include: deaf; blind; and carcinoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.