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Typed case summary, chart, reports, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: spina bifida inflammatory infection; cord compression; abscess; sore back; paraplegia; meningitis; myelitis; and arachnoiditis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, charts, photograph, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 3at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; hydrocephalus; poliomyelitis; paralysis of arm; thrid nerve paresis; cerebellar abscess; and arachnoiditis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.