University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 70 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; headache; diplopia; brainstem lesion; and subarachnoid haemorrhage. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1929. Conditions mentioned include: headache; fainting; diplopia; and glioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

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Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male sapperfrom Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: headache; diplopia; numbness in leg; amnesia; hypotonia of muscles in leg; congenital aneurysm; spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage; fainting; uraemia; and renal tuberculosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male aircraftman fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: fainting; headache; diplopia; slurred speech; deafness; chronic epidemic encephalitis; and ptosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male craftsman from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; diplopia; fainting; and post-traumatic epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, notes, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; nystagmus; unsteadiness; fainting; diplopia; fits; and papilloma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, charts , autopsy reports and black and white photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: double vision; giddiness; headache; stiff neck; vomiting; sleep disturbances; squint in eye; ependymona; loss of conscienceness; fits; glandular mass on neck; lack of energy; dysarthria; difficultly with vision; difficultly swallowing; weight loss; facial weakness; and homonymous...

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Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, drawings, black and white photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; vomiting; headache; horizontal diplopia; facial weakness; papilloedema; intracranial bleeding; tumour; intracranial haemorrhage; and angioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, report, correspondence and charts relating to male psychiatrist from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 31 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: compression of spinal cord from a ruptured cervical intervertebral disc; diplopia; and syncopal attacks. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: retrobulbar neuritis; headache; fainting; and diplopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.