University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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, charts, and correspondence relating to male gunnerfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: ear pain; headache; facial paresis; diplopia; papilloedema; chronic suppurative right otitis; mastoiditis; ataxia; meningitis; and hemianopia; post neuritic atrophy; post otitic cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 4 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; earache; squint; meningitis; intracranial pressure; and abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: earache; nystagmus; labyrinthitis; headache; intracranial pressure; fits; and meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; ear pain; headache; and weakness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: osteomyelitis of skull; ear pain; meningitis; thrombophlebitis; coma; tinnitus; dizziness; vertigo; facial paresis; and rodent ulcer. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: brain abscess; earache; and meningitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.