University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: ?general paresis of the insane; ?disseminated sclerosis; spastic paresis; and numbness in feet. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: difficulty in walking; cerebrospinal syphilis; encephalomyelitis; euphoria; and disseminated sclerosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: leg pain; unsteadiness; weakness; anaemia; neuro-syphilis; spasticity; poor memory; disseminated sclerosis; loss of sight; bilateral optic atrophy; and haemorrhage. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 44 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: general paralysis of the insane; neurosyphilis; disseminated sclerosis; gait disorder; paresis; headaches; amnesia; neoplasm; and tabes dorsalis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and postmortem report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: bronchial carcinoma; secondary carcinoma; hemiparesis; disc lesion; syphilis; intracranial lesion; epilepsy; seizure; nausea; vomiting; oedema; and hepatitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.