University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; Arnold Chiari malformation; facial weakness; strabismus; and porencephalic cyst. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: congenital hydrocephalus; mild Arnold-Chiari malformation; extrapyramidal tremor; extrapyramidal and cerebellar motor dysfunction; and nystagmus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral atrophy; subdural hygroma; vomiting; hydrocephalus; unconsciousness; fits; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; acute thoracic compression; hydrocephalus; cerebral gliotic lesion; cranio-cervical cutaneous ecchymosis; and subconjunctival haemorrhage. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, autopsy report, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 1 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: communicating hydrocephalus; deafness; uncal herniation; and vomiting. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.