University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, notes, photographs, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 9 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: peri-cerebellar leptomeningitis; astrocytoma; headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; ataxia; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 8 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; cyst; meningitis; astrocytoma; and glioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; meningitis; hydrocephalus; headache; cyst; astrocytoma; and glioblastoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, death certificate, autopsy report, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; failure of vision; headache; vomiting; fits; hydrocephalus; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; diplopia; headache; vomiting; dizziness; papilloedema; and oligodendroglioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; astrocytoma; papilloedema; meningitis; and brain abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to female from outside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: amblyopia; amenorrhoea; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; squint; hydrocephalus; astrocytoma; meningitis; ventriculitis; and pseudo-hypertrophy. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, report and photographs relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 13 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headache; meningitis; failure of vision; hydrocephalus; glioma; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 8 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; somnolence; and meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.