University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, chart, report and drawing relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: chronic subdural effusion; papilloedema; diplopia; head injury; headache; subdural haematoma; headache; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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.

Typed case summary and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: subdural effusion; fits; vomiting; and intracranial pressure. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: closed head injury; severe cerebral damage; brainstem ischaemia; fractures of tibia and fibula; subdural hygroma; increased intracranial pressure; attacks of extensor rigidity; and pulmony embolism. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.