University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 10 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headache; head injury; vomiting; exophthalmos; papilloedema; meningitis; fit; and abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vertigo; gunshot wound; leptomeningitis; abcsess; seizures; epilepsy; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 12 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial pressure; meningitis; hydrocephalus; epilepsy; papilloedema; seizures; and aphasia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; nystagmus; seizures; papilloedema; temporal abscess; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; tinnitus; nasal congestion; fit; hypotonia; papilloedema; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 42 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: internal hydrocephalus; stenosis of Sylvian aqueduct; facial oedema; papilloedema; headache; unsteadiness; nausea; fits; and meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several admissions.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2. Patient not examined. Conditions mentioned include: pneumococcal meningitis; subarachnoid adhesions; head injury; vision disorders; hydrocephalus; coma; vomiting; oedema; papilloedema; and seizure. No treatment given. Patient discharged.