University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male private from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 29 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: headache; hysterical amnesia and stutter; acrocyanosis of hands; and neurosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: speech disturbance; exhaustion; personality change; unsteadiness; and diabetes insipidus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 7 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: speech difficulties; unconsciousness; skull fracture; post-traumatic personality change; head injury; headache; and Sturge Weber syndrome. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: speech difficulty; personality change; and meningioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed correspondence, notes and chart relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: depression; mental disorders; gait disorder; speech disorder; vision disorder; hypertonus; and demylinating disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 11 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: severe cerebral contusion; head injury; subconjunctival haemorrhage; mental disorder; and speech disorder. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: breast carcinoma; metastases; hemiparesis; speech disorder; headaches; sickness; weakness; drowsiness; homonymous hemianopia; mental disorders; incontinence; and papilloedema. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 70 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral atrophy; depressive psychosis; hallucinations; unsteady gait; emphysema; memory defect; head injury; speech disorder; confusion; and disorientation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: petit mal; speech difficulty; and intellectual retardation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.