University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, notes, photographs, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 9 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: peri-cerebellar leptomeningitis; astrocytoma; headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; ataxia; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 7 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; ataxia; hypertonia; and glioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: squint; dizziness; intracranial presure; and ataxia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: staggering; vomiting; ataxia; papilloedema; medulloblastoma; and intracranial pressure. 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, reports and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 42 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; unsteadiness; headache; meningitis; opisthotonos; ataxia; cyst; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

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.

Typed case summary, chart, report, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 28 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: aqueduct stenosis; intracranial pressure; papilloedema; failure of vision; head injury; diplopia; tremor; headache; ataxia; and hemiballismus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 56at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: deafness; ataxia; acoustic neuroma; aphasia; cerebral thrombosis; hydrocephalus; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, note, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral tumour; lung lesion; headache; vomiting; unsteadiness; ataxia; cystic astrocytoma; staggering gait; papilloedema; nystagmus; dysarthria; obstructive hydrocephalus; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged