University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 28 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; dizziness; left otitis; numbness; facial weakness; epilepsy; fits; spinal otorrhoea; nausea; hemiparesis; aphasia; abscess; and cholesteatoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and note relating to male sergeant, wireless operator fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 21 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: facial weakness; dysdiadochokinesia; aphasia; dysarthria; tremor; skull fracture; brain injury; and hemiparesis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and report relating to male second class aircraftman fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 28 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headache; paresis of right upper extremity; slight dysdiadochokinesis; deviation in gait; facial weakness; brain injury; and dysphasic troubles. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, chart, correspondence and report relating to male yacht master fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: blindness in left eye; psychic trauma; hypaesthesia; hemiparesis; facial weakness; organic disease of central nervous system; and optic atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male aircraftman second class fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 21 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: skull fracture; leg fracture; severe concussional head injury; amnesia; subarachnoid haemorrhage; facial weakness; and hemiparesis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male lance corporal fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to head; dysarthria; double vision; twitching; headache; nystagmus; diplopia; facial weakness; hypermetria; hemiparesis; and hemihypoaesthesia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports, charts and photographs relating to male joiner fourth class fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: headache; weakness of limbs; angioblastic meningioma; epilepsy; cerebral atrophy; optic atrophy; hemiparesis; porencephalic cysts; keratitis; todd's palsy; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and report relating to maleflight sergeant fromoutside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: multiple gunshot wounds; scalp wound; motor aphasia; papilloedema; dysarthria; facial weakness; skull fracture; right hand astereognosis; hemiparesis; hemi-anaesthesia; and cerebral atrophy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to malelabourer from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage; left hemiparesis; facial weakness; aphasia; bilateral spasticity in lower limbs; epilepsy; cerebral damage; and cicatrisation. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male gunner fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 31 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; defective vision; left hemiparesis; facial weakness; papilloedema; hypoaesthesia; headache; gidiness; and vomiting. No treatment given. Patient discharged.