University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 63 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: deafness; fibrosis; and carcinoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; sciatica; backache; and fibrosis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; sciatica; and fibrositis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, autopsy report, report, photographs and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 68 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: closed head injury; intracerebral clot; coma; intracranial pressure; and hepatic fibrosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary (original 1954 notes missing), handwritten notes, correspondence, charts and reports relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: chronic pain following post-irradiation fibrosis involvong left brachial plexus; hyperesthesia; paraesthesia; bursting feeling in left forearm; and depression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, reports, charts, note and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: arachnoiditis; vascular insufficiency; disorder of gait; compression of spine; gonorrhoea; meningeal fibrosis; and meningococcal meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cauda equina syndrome; back pain; sciatica; weakness; fribrositis; arthritis; and fistula. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; leg pain; sciatica; and epidual fibrosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, autopsy report, reports and photograph relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: basal leptomeningeal fibrosis; obstruction of foramen of Magendie; allergic reaction; arachnoiditis; vertigo; unconsciousness; headache; papilloedema; hypertension; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; nausea; and vomiting. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died...

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Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, reports and charts relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 31 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: supra-orbital neuritis; demyelination; and endoneural fibrosis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.