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Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, autopsy reports and reports relating to female from Scotland ( outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headache; vomiting; unconsciousness; drowsy; poor concentration and memory; hands weak and shaky; obstructive hydrocephalus; suprasellar cyst; pituitary tumour; adenoma; bitemporal hemianopia; somnolence; and weight loss. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 48 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; vomiting; drowsiness; weakness; exhaustion; unconsciousness; delirium; hypotonus; glioblastoma; and glioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: headache; unconsciousness; astrocytoma; fits; unsteadiness; and fatigue. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.