University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting;; failure of vision; mental change; and abscess. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; dizziness; staggering; mental retardation; cerebral abscess; and subdural haematoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; head injury; intracranial pressure; mental changes; abscess; hydrocephalus; and carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Notes, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: brain abscess; epilepsy; and personality change. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, drawings, tracer card, 35mm slide and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 36 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: headache; dizziness; personality change; fits; and cerebral abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, notes and report relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; and mental slowness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: somnolence; intellectual deterioration; and cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, report, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 60 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: temporal-sphenoidal lobe abscess; hypertension; dizziness; headache; mental deterioration; and cerebral thrombosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.