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Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, notes and black and white photos relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: banged head on door; frontal headaches; peculiar behaviour; smells burning; not seeing as well with left eye; photophobia; staggering; vomiting; drowsiness; unconscious; intracranial hypertension; hypertonus of all four limbs; chronic subdural haematoma; and malignant glioma. Surgical...

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Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 70 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: hand tremor; slowness in writing; loss of balance; parkinsonism; and arterial hypertension. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Correspondence, charts and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 66 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: loss of balance; staggering; dizziness; migrainous headaches; hypertension; arteriosclerosis; deafness; nystagmus; and neurosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 68 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: arteriosclerosis; hypertension; numbness; unsteadiness; and hyperesthesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Notes, report, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: hypertension; headache; staggering; and sternochondral injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 69 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: hypertension; unsteadiness; nystagmus; cerebro-vascular degeneration; and thrombosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed correspondence and notes relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 63 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; hip pain; arteriosclerosis; unsteadiness of gait; hypertension; and possible prolapsed intervertebral disc. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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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.

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Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 67 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; unsteadiness; dizziness; hypertension; optic atrophy; and pituitary neoplasm. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 63 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: spinal meningioma; gait disorder; weakness; pain; paraplegia; spasms; hypertension; and osteoarthritis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.