University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, report, charts, correspondence, drawings and notes relating to male sapper from Great Britain (excluding Scotland)aged 40 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: numbness in fingers; headache; diplopia; dizziness; hemi-hypaesthesia; stiffness in neck; loss of power in arm; and neuro-encephalomyelitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; leg weakness; and numbness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 28 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; dizziness; left otitis; numbness; facial weakness; epilepsy; fits; spinal otorrhoea; nausea; hemiparesis; aphasia; abscess; and cholesteatoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, chart, correspondence and report relating to male yacht master fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: blindness in left eye; psychic trauma; hypaesthesia; hemiparesis; facial weakness; organic disease of central nervous system; and optic atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and note relating to male sergeant fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 33 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: weakness in leg; numbness; intramedullary spinal tumour; disseminated scoliosis; brown-sequard lesion on spinal cord; and spinal cord disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male lance corporal fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to head; dysarthria; double vision; twitching; headache; nystagmus; diplopia; facial weakness; hypermetria; hemiparesis; and hemihypoaesthesia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to male miner fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 45 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: focal epileptic attack; headache; fainting; vertigo; paraesthesiae; hemi-hypaesthesia; giddiness; unsteady gait; weakness of limbs; concussional head injury; and neurosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, drawing and chart relating to malecommander fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: low back pain; hypoaesthesia; displaced lumbar intervertebral disc; sciatic neuritis; muscular atrophy; and weakness of calf muscle. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and notes relating to maleprivate fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 22 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: facial weakness; hypoaesthesia; kyphosis; sciatic neuritis; left sciatic pain; and intervertebral disc protrusion. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male gunner fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 31 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; defective vision; left hemiparesis; facial weakness; papilloedema; hypoaesthesia; headache; gidiness; and vomiting. No treatment given. Patient discharged.