University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Correspondence and handwritten notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: infiltrating astrocytoma; headache; vomiting; bilateral papilloedema; hemiparesis; hemianesthesia; and hemianopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant oligodendroglioma; epilepsy; hemiplegia; hemianopia; and hemianaesthesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 66 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: grand mal fits; hysteria; homonymous hemianopia; and hemianaesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 65 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: homonymous hemianopia; hemianaesthesia; impairement of intellectual functions; hypertension; cerebral vascular catastrophe; and alexia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts and report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 61 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: hemiplegia; incontinence; homonymous hemianopia; hemianaesthesia; intracranial haemorrhage; and infarction in cerebral arteries. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, handwritten notes, correspondence, report, charts, black-and-white photographs, autopsy and neuropathology reports relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: hemiparesis; headache; hemianopia; hemianaesthesia; mental deterioration; malignant astrocytoma; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.