University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; sick feeling; sound in right ear; giddiness; drowsy; intracranial tension; and cerebral abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report and photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; cholesteatoma; facial paresis; otitis media; nausea; papilloedema; and vomiting. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports, drawing, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 28 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: earache; nausea; vomiting; headache; and cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: nausea; oedema; and cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, postmortem report, charts and photographs relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: chronic cerebral abscess; astrocytoma; epilepsy; seizures; unconsciousness; headache; tinnitus; nausea; amnesia; speech disorder; papilloedema; and head injury. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.