University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 32 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: cataplexy; sleepiness; and hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, photographs, report and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 63 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: right temporal glioblastoma; headache; drowsiness; papilloedema; breathlessness; and intracranial hypertension. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, report and chart relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: midbrain tumour; frontal headaches; pyelitis; oedema of face and ankles; double vision; personality change; gait disorder; drowsiness; papilloedema; and hypertension. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correpsondence, notes and chart relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: essential arterial hypertension; pain in renal area; tiredness; and dizziness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and chart relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: hypertensive polycythaemia; obesity; tiredness; breathlessness; headaches; and weight gain. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, chart and report relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; dizziness; intracranial hypertension; papilloedema; homonymous hemianopia; drowsiness; cerebral neoplasm; astrocytoma; and glioblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report, photographs and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; drowsiness; papilloedema; intellectual deterioration; hemiparesis; bronchial carcinoma; bronchopnuemonia; cerebral tumour; renal ademomata; secondary glioblastoma; and hypertension. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, chart, reports, note, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral arteriosclerosis; ischaemic lesions; headache; personality changes; hypertension; facial weakness; incontinence; cerebral atrophy; and somnolence. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 77 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: arterial hypertension; drowsiness; arteriosclerosis; weakness; speech disorder; head pain; and hyperaesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photograph, autopsy report, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 70 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; hypertension; cerebral tumour; drowsiness; homonymous hemianopia; and hemiparesis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.