University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: partial deafness; cerebrospinal meningitis; cerebral abscess; homonymous hemianopia; and paresis. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports, notes, charts, drawings and photographs relating to male petty officer from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 29 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: head wound; papillodema; diplopia; homonymous hemionopia; epilepsy; headache; cerebral abscess; thigh wound; dizziness; and hallucinations. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, and correspondence relating to male gunnerfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: ear pain; headache; facial paresis; diplopia; papilloedema; chronic suppurative right otitis; mastoiditis; ataxia; meningitis; and hemianopia; post neuritic atrophy; post otitic cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: mastoiditis; hemianopia; headache; vomiting; and cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, autopsy report and photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: osteitis of skull; multiple subdural and cerebral abscesses; right hemiparesis; papilloedema; homonymous hemianopia; dysphasia; and leptomeningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 34 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: otitis media; nystagmus; temporal lobe abscess; hemiparesis; hemianopia; and thrombophlebitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: thrombophlebitis; papilloedema; hemianopia; and temporal lobe abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, photographs, chart and reports relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; and homonymous heminopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, charts and report relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 23 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: acute multiloculated abscess in right temporal lobe; left flaccid hemiparesis; left hemianopia; and drowsiness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 38 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: fungus cerebri; cerebral abscess; depressed fracture of skull; shrapnel wounds to head, back, and left leg; and complete right homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.