University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report and photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: somnolence; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; carcinoma; and brain abscess. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; headache; fits; vomiting; intracranial pressure; and otitis media. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; tumour; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; and cerebral abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; head injury; intracranial pressure; mental changes; abscess; hydrocephalus; and carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, report, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 23 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; midbrain haemorrhage; headache; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, autopay report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 4 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: fits; intracranial pressure; posterior fossa abscess; hydrocephalus; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: ependymoblastoma; sarcoma; headache; intracranial pressure; brain abscess; and convulsions. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Typed case summary, reports, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 9 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: septic thrombophlebitis; cerebral abscess; headache; papilloedema; third nerve paresis; facial paralysis; intracranial tension; and epileptic manifestations. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 20 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; photophobia; vomiting; papilloedema; headache; drowsiness; and incresed intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, correpondence, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 66 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: temporal lobe abscess; chronic otitis media; and increased intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.