University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, chart, note, photograph, correspondence and autopsy report relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; hand tremor; olfactory aura; facial paresis; glioblastoma multiforme; glioblastoma; anosmia; homonomous hemianopia; defective memory; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 40 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: anosmia; vertigo; hemianopia; hypesthesia; acoustic neuroma; and meningocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, photographs, meeting programme, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians), aged 44 at first examination in 1928. Conditions mentioned include: headache; seizures; anosmia; hemianopia; and meningioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; cerebral tumour; brainstem ischaemia; brain swelling; anosmia; homonymous hemianopia; dysphasia; and mental changes. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, photographs, chart, report, note, court documents and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: compound depressed skull fracture; scalp lacerations; hemianopia; 6th nerve palsy; anosmia; personality change; amnesia; and visual damage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.