University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: spinal cord compression; and perimeningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: neck pain; spinal cord compression; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, reports, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: spina bifida inflammatory infection; cord compression; abscess; sore back; paraplegia; meningitis; myelitis; and arachnoiditis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: spinal adhesive arachnoiditis; spinal cord compression; meningitis; leg weakness; and cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, note and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: arachnoiditis; vascular insufficiency; disorder of gait; compression of spine; gonorrhoea; meningeal fibrosis; and meningococcal meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: contusional damage to cervical spine; spinal cord compression; paraparesis; cervical spondylosis; meningitis; gait disorder; osteophytic protrusions; urinary retention; papilloedema; and physical disability. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.