University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 54 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial pressure; glioma; hemianopia; hemiparesis; vomiting; and facial pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: seizures; aphasia; epilepsy; paraesthesia; headache; hemianopia; facial pain; vomiting; meningeal sarcoma; and failure of vision. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, and report relating to female paitent from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 23 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: neck pain; headache; hemianopia; abscess; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: acromegaly; pain in hands; hemianopia; and pituitary tumour. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, charts and black-and-white photographs relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; eye pain; hair on face; prominent nose and chin; acromegaly; cyanosis; hypertrichosis; hemianopia; and pituitary tumour. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, charts , autopsy reports and black and white photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: double vision; giddiness; headache; stiff neck; vomiting; sleep disturbances; squint in eye; ependymona; loss of conscienceness; fits; glandular mass on neck; lack of energy; dysarthria; difficultly with vision; difficultly swallowing; weight loss; facial weakness; and homonymous...

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Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographic negatives, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: sciatica; back pain; thrombo-angiitis obliterans; hemianopia; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; hemianopia; eye pain; and craniopharyngioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: headache; limb weakness; hemianopia; back pain; and carcinoma. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, chart, report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 60 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: arteriosclerosis; eye pain; dizziness; embolus; hemianopia; and vascular catastrophe. No treatment given. Patient discharged.