University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, reports. notes and correspondence relating to male from outside Great Britain aged 27 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; falure of vision; amblyopia; diplopia; unsteadiness; intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; and neurinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, black and white photographs, autopsy report and notes relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headaches; neck and occipital pain; vomiting; amblyopic attacks; diplopia; florid papilloedema; increased intracranial pressure; intracranial hypertension; and neoplasm. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; headache; prolapsed intervertebral disc; back pain; neurinoma; haemangioblastoma; diplopia; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several admissions.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headaches; insomnia; deafness; papilloedema; acoustic neurinoma; intracranial pressure; schwannoma; attacks of unsteadiness; and facial spasms. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, charts and reports relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial pressure; deterioration of vision; hydrocephalus; and neurilemmoma. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.