University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts and reports relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: drowsiness; speech disturbance; headache; homonymous hemianopia; facial paresis; aphasia; glioblastoma multiforme; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 67 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: tiredness; headache; visual failure; hemianopia; and angioblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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, report, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: tiredness; headache; vomiting; failure of vision; hemiparesis; hemianopia; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headaches; vomiting; inabilty to concentrate; homonymous hemianopia; abscess; and glioblastoma multiforme. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 43 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fatigue; strabismus; aneurysm; diplopia; arteriovenous malformation; arteriovenous fistulae; exophthalmos; hemianopia; and haemorrhage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; fatigue; euphoria; hemianopia; papilloedema; and oedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, photograph and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; increased intracranial pressure; homonymous hemianopia; hemiparesis; fatigue; headache; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.