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, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 14 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; diplopia; somnolence; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; and tumour. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 14 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; diplopia; somnolence; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; and tumour. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, report, charts and correspondence relating to male fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 55at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; spastic paralysis; broncho pneumonia; intracranial pressure; headache; and drowsiness. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: attacks of somnolence; increases in intracranial pressure; and traumatic teno-synovitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 58 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: diffuse astrocytoma; incontinence; drowsiness; intracranial tension; and hemiparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, note, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 62 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: subdural heamtoma; increased intracranial pressure; headache; drowsiness; bradycardia; and papilloedema. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, note and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; glioblastoma multiforme; epileptic attack; drowsiness; and raised intracranial pressure. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, charts, reports, autopsy report and photograph relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 39 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: glioma; reading difficulties; hemianopsia; numbness; gait disorder; hemiplegia; drowsiness; headache; vomiting; incontinence; apathy; and intracranial pressure. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.