University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting;; failure of vision; mental change; and abscess. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, newspaper clipping and charts relating to male flight lieutenant from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 23 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: skull fracture; headache; hyperaesthesia; stenosis of frontal nasal duct; and extradural abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 13 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; vomiting; headache; and cerebellar abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report and photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: somnolence; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; carcinoma; and brain abscess. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; headache; fits; vomiting; intracranial pressure; and otitis media. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, reports, autopsy report and photograph relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 26 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; vomiting; headache; facial paresis; deafness; and cerebellar abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several admissions.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts, black and white photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: catarrhal discharge; vomiting; headaches; tuberculous meningitis; oedema; frontal sinusitis; thrombophlebitis; osteomyelitis; pericranial and extradural abscesses; and cerebral abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; sick feeling; sound in right ear; giddiness; drowsy; intracranial tension; and cerebral abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, reports, correspondence, charts and autopsy report relating to male coal miner fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 35 at first examination in1941 Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull; fits; diplopia; nystagmus; cerebral abscess; epilepsy; headache; and cerebral cicatrix. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, drawings, charts, correspondence and photographs relating to male corporal fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 27 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; compound skull fracture; headache; dizziness; memory defect; intracranial abscess; slight dysphasic disability; amnesia; anosmia; and displaced left eye. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.