University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 16 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; brain stem haemorrhage; comatose; subgaleal haematoma; hypertonic limbs; brain damage; brain oedema; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, photographs, autopsy report, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: TB meningitis; choreiform movements of hand; coma; and increased intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, photographs, autopsy report, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant oligodendroglioma; meningioma; comatose; brainsten ischaemia; hemiparesis; intracranial pressure; post operative subdural hygroma; and bronchopnuemonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.