University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts and reports relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: drowsiness; speech disturbance; headache; homonymous hemianopia; facial paresis; aphasia; glioblastoma multiforme; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: fracture of skull due to head injury; middle meningeal haemorrhage; hemianopia; and dysarthric speech disturbances. Nonsurgical 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.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 56 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: lesion in frontal lobe; cerebral thrombosis; light-headedness; unsteadiness of gait; weakness; speech disorder; double vision; homonymous hemianopia; hemiplegia; unconsciousness; and arteriosclerosis. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed correspondence, notes and chart relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: weakness; giddiness; speech disorder; facial distortion; hemianopia; hemiparesis; thrombosis; neoplasm; and cerebral vascular lesion. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: breast carcinoma; metastases; hemiparesis; speech disorder; headaches; sickness; weakness; drowsiness; homonymous hemianopia; mental disorders; incontinence; and papilloedema. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) first examined in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral arteriosclerosis; speech difficulty; headache; and left homonymous hemianopia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.