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, 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, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: haematoma; headache; sleeplessness; haemorrhoids; constipation; anaemia; stiffness; vomiting; diplopia; papilloedema; neoplasms; glioblastoma; mitoses; necrosis; lipophages; and vision impairment. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, autopsy report, correspondence and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; preoccupied; apathetic; disorientated; slowness; incontinent; gliomatous neoplasm; and glioblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, autopsy report and photograph relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma; headache; vomiting; photophobia; and confusion. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, charts and black and white photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 3 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headaches; sickness; staggering; squint; giddy; blind; glioma; glioblastoma; and brain stem tumour. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: tremor; headache; vertigo; cyst; fits; petit mal; glioblastoma; and angioblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; dizziness; failure of vision; and meningioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, black and white photographs, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 62 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: giddiness; weakness of motor and sensory functions; headache; fit; vomiting; difficulty swallowing; and glioblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headache; glioblastoma; and hemianopia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.