University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: fits; leptomeningitis; abscesses; ventriculitis; and gunshot wound. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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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.

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Typed case summary, charts and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; meningitis; ventriculitis; and subependymal abscess. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: intraspinal abscess; headache; vomiting; meningitis; and ependymoventriculitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: spina bifida; Arnold-Chiari malformation; fits; meningitis; ventriculitis; meningocele; hydrocephalus; and thrombophlebitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 5 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: ventriculitis; post-meningitic hydrocephalus; epilepsy; skull fracture; head injury; and cerebro-spinal fluod rhinorrhoea. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, report, charts, photograph and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; epilepsy; arrested mental development; and ventriculitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, postmortem report, chart and photograph relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 9 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: internal hydrocephalus; enlarged head; headaches; meningitis; ventriculitis; arachnoid adhesions; vomiting; gait disorder; weight gain; abdominal pain; intracranial pressure; incontinence; hypertonus; and dysarthria. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given....

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Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, photographs, journal article, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: medulloblastoma; meningitis; vomiting; headache; papilloedema; and ventriculitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.