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Typed case summaries, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians), aged 48 at first examination in 1928. Conditions mentioned include: cranio cerebral injury; hemianopia; poisoning; basal fracture; mania; concussion; aphasia; alexia; and agraphia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male second lieutenant from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 21 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: right lower quadrantic homonymous hemianopia; head injury; tinnitus; dysphasia; dsylexia; dysgraphia; memory impairement; post traumatic epilepsy; and skull fracture. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, reports, and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: glioma; tumour; headache; homonymous hemianopia; hemiparesis; hemiplegia; papilloedema; hemi-hypoaesthesia; increased intracranial pressure; autotopagnosia; dysphasia; agraphia; dyscalculia; and dsylexia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 61 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: neoplasm; epilepsy; aphasia; fainting; fits; apractic difficulties; agnosia; hemianopia; alexia; hemiparesis; agraphia; occipito-temporal lesion; and hemihypo-aesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: thrombosis of cerebral artery; headache; vomiting; limb weakness; ataxia; homonymous hemianopia; papilloedema; alexia; and agraphia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: spontaneous introcerebral haemorrhage; vascular malformation; hemiparesis; dysphasia; papilloedema; haematoma; speech disorder; apraxia; reading difficulties; writing difficulties; vision disorder; epilepsy; tonic-clonic seizures; homonymous hemianopia; amnesia; and arteriosclerosis. Surgical and nonsurgical...