University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, nurses' report book, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 73 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; hemianopia; somnolence; and adenoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, correspondence and charts relating to male captain fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 49 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: headache; auditory hallucinations; papilloedema; somnolence; left homonymous hemianopia; facial paresis; tremor; glioblastoma multiforme; and glioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, autopsy reports and reports relating to female from Scotland ( outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headache; vomiting; unconsciousness; drowsy; poor concentration and memory; hands weak and shaky; obstructive hydrocephalus; suprasellar cyst; pituitary tumour; adenoma; bitemporal hemianopia; somnolence; and weight loss. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, chart and report relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; dizziness; intracranial hypertension; papilloedema; homonymous hemianopia; drowsiness; cerebral neoplasm; astrocytoma; and glioblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, photographs and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; drowsiness; homonymous hemianopia; renal carcinoma; hypernephroma; papilloedema; cerebral and chest metastatis; and glioblastoma multiforme. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; dysryhthmia; headache; drowsiness; dizziness; papilloedema; homonymous heminaopia; and blurred vision. 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, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 25 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; drowsiness; facial paresis; and right homonymous hemianopsia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 63 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombosis; hemiparesis; hemianopia; and drowsiness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photograph, autopsy report, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 70 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; hypertension; cerebral tumour; drowsiness; homonymous hemianopia; and hemiparesis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.