University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, photographs, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 12 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: squint; vomiting; pinealoma; hydrocephalus; angioma; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 1 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: squint; vomiting; mental retardation; hydrocephalus; and medulloblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence and notes relating to female patient aged 1 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; squint; hydrocephalus; and vision impaired. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, application form, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 8 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: squint; headache; failure of vision; hydrocephalus; papilloedema; pituitary epidermoid cyst; and craniopharyngioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from outside Great Britain aged 1 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; head injury; squint; papilloedema; intracranial pressure; convulsions; ataxia; and hypotonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and reports relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 10 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: staggering; failure of vision; squint; headache; hydrocephalus; cyst; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; squint; hydrocephalus; astrocytoma; meningitis; ventriculitis; and pseudo-hypertrophy. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, photographs, photographic negatives, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: neck pain; vomiting; squint; meningitis; papilloedema; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographic negatives, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: squint; intracranial haemorrhage; hydrocephalus; cyst; and encephalocele. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, black and white photographs, notes and charts relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland)aged 2 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: retracted head; sickness; unsteadiness of gait; squint; ataxia; intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; opisthotonic cerebellar attacks; astrocytoma; and hypertonia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.