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, reports, notes, charts, drawings and photographs relating to male petty officer from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 29 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: head wound; papillodema; diplopia; homonymous hemionopia; epilepsy; headache; cerebral abscess; thigh wound; dizziness; and hallucinations. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, nurses' report book, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: glioma; neuroblastoma; hemianopia; epilepsy; intracranial pressure; and paraesthesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, nurses' report book, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: glioma; neuroblastoma; hemianopia; epilepsy; intracranial pressure; and paraesthesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 26 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: hemiparesis; cerebral palsy; seizures; hemianopia; and epilepsy. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: traumatic epilepsy; seizures; hemianopia; diplopia; and headache. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: seizures; epilepsy; headache; hemianopia; craniopharyngioma; chromophobe adenoma; and catalespsy. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: seizures; aphasia; epilepsy; paraesthesia; headache; hemianopia; facial pain; vomiting; meningeal sarcoma; and failure of vision. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports, drawing, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 7 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; hemianopia; medulloblastoma; ependymoblastoma; vomiting; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports, notes and drawing relating to male sergeant fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in1941 Conditions mentioned include: numbness; paraesthesia; hydro-nephrosis; post traumatic epilepsy; concussional head injury; headaches; ptosis; nystagmus; hypotonia; astrocytoma; and left homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.