University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculosis of spine; stiffness; back pain; and weakness in legs. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: kyphoscoliosis; spinal cord compression; Pott's disease; backache; numbness; leg weakness; and osteomalacia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: spinal tuberculosis; shoulder pain; arm weakness; and endocarditis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculosis of spine; weakness; low back pain; gait disorder; and spasms. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: spinal tuberculosis; paraplegia; leg weakness and numbness; paraesthesiae; and spinal cord compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: limb weakness; involuntary movement of limbs; cerebral fluid obstruction; spinal tuberculosis; spinal cord compression; and pneumothorax. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 42 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculous disease of spine; spinal cord lesion; thrombosis; spinal cord disease; numbness; limb weakness; paraplegia; and tuberculous arteritis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 10 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: Pott's paraplegia; nocturnal enuresis; paraparesis; spinal tuberculosis; and limb weakness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 30 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: TB spine; cervical pain; limb weakness; tuberculous osteomyelitis; and spinal cord compression. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.