University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports, newspaper clipping, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 14 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: squint; headache; vomiting; blindness; and craniopharyngioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, reports and notes relating to male cabin boy fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland)aged 20 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wounds to head; compound skull fracture; acute meningitis; loss of vision; ear pain; headache; nystagmus; and seizures. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 1 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; facial spasms; basal meningitis; thrombosis; and blindness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: septicaemia; meningitis; pansinusitus; headaches; facial pain; retrobular neuritis; bilateral blindness; optic atrophy; and bronchopneumonia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: multiple penetrating gunshot wounds in left parietal region; resultant chronic left occipital lobe abscess; blindness; and meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 7 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; irritability; delirium tremens; squint; blindness; fractures; dural tears; and streptococcus viridans meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.