University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary and chart relating to maleprivate fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound; facial weakness; skull fracture; gross dysphasic disturbance; dysarthria; homonymous hemianopia; and brain damage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male airman from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: mortar fragment wound of head; fracture of skull; considerable damage to underlying brain; and right hemianopia. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: through-and-through bullet wound to the brain; residual left homonymous hemianopia; post-traumatic personality change; and post-traumatic amnesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 20 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral contusion; left homonymous hemianopia; and head injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male airman from outside Great Britain aged 25 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: effects of cerebral contusion; incomplete right homonymous hemianopia; and spastic right-sided drop foot. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to skull (accidental); brain injury; left homonymous hemianopia; and right-sided headache. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: brain injury; retarded mental development; speech difficulty; and hemianopsia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; penetrating brain wound; post traumatic epilepsy; headache; clot; homonymous hemianopia; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.