University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary, reports, photographs, charts, pamphlet, offprint, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 0 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; streptococcal meningitis; headaches; vomiting; and hemianopia. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: partial deafness; cerebrospinal meningitis; cerebral abscess; homonymous hemianopia; and paresis. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: seizures; meningitis; hemianopia; hemiparesis; and encephalitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male sapper from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 21 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; right homonymous hemianopia; skull fracture; infective cerebral thrombo-phlebitis; septic meningitis; and headaches. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Charts, drawings, correspondence and photographs relating to male private aged 24 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: pneumoccocal meningitis; memory defect; paraesthesiae; visual field defects; amnesia; homonymous hemianopic defects; brain atrophy; and lesion. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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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.

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Typed case summary, charts, report and autopsy report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; abscess; hemianopia; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: hemiparesis; meningitis; hemianopia; and encephalitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, autopsy report and photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: osteitis of skull; multiple subdural and cerebral abscesses; right hemiparesis; papilloedema; homonymous hemianopia; dysphasia; and leptomeningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, X-ray films, photographs, notes, autopsy report, charts, correspondence and report relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating mortar wound to left occipito-parietal region with severe residual difficulties; dysphasia; intermittent meningitis; and right-sided hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several...