University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: infection; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 4 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; infection; squint; headache; vomiting; convulsions; and cerebral atrophy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 0 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: meningocele; infection; meningomyelocele; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: wound infection; hydrocephalus; leptomeningitis; and headache. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report and photographs relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: spina bifida; meningomyelocele; Arnold-Chiari deformity; infection; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: communicating hydrocephalus; enlarged head size; haematoma; and infection. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 3 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; intracranial infection; and ?subacute meningitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: post meningic hydrocephalus; wound infection; and meningicoccal meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 11 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: transitional chromophobe adenoma of pituitary; hydrocephalus; blindness; scalp infection; and craniopharyngioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: meningocoele; hydrocephalus; subdural hygroma; wound infection; and backwardness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.