University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 34 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: dimness of vision; neck injury; dizziness; headache; hallucinations; carcinoma; intracranial pressure; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 63 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; unsteadiness; hydrocephalus; and carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report and photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: somnolence; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; carcinoma; and brain abscess. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; head injury; intracranial pressure; mental changes; abscess; hydrocephalus; and carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; fits; intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; and carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Autopsy report, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 56 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: meningoencephalitis; carcinoma; hydrocephalus; vomiting; diplopia; and leptomeningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: neck pain; diplopia; carcinoma; olfactory hallucinations; tinnitus; intracranial pressure; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, autopsy report, notes, photographs, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 48 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: secondary bronchial carcinoma; confusion; drowsiness; incontinence; papilloedema; ptosis; facial weakness; fits; hydrocephalus; bronchopneumonia; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: bronchogenic carcinoma; multiple intracranial metastases; vomiting; headache; raised intracranial pressure; internal hydrocephalus; facial weakness; and brainstem compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 64 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral metastasis; primary thyroid carcinoma; hydrocephalus; venous sinus thrombosis; hemianopia; headache; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.