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Scope and Contents Typed case summary, photograph, autopsy report, charts, reports, note and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma; limb spasticity; basal ganglia tumour; headache; vomiting; papilloedema; drowsiness; confusion; hemiparesis; incontinence; dysphasia; Addison's disease; secondary tumours in brain and adrenal glands; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment...

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Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral metastasis; primary bronchogenic carcinoma; drowsiness; incontinence; confusion; and speech defect. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombophlebitis; confusion; progressive dementia; agnosia; cerebral glioma; cerebral arteriopathy; and cerebral metastases. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, note, report, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: bronchial carcinoma; cerebral metastases; focal epileptica ttacks; and confusional state. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, handwritten notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: confusion; seizure; left hemiparesis; language defects; bronchial carcinoma; and possible cerebral metastasis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 69 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: broncogenic carcinoma; cerebral secondary metastatic deposits; space occupying lesion; disorientaiton; memory loss; dysrhythmia; and intellectual deterioration. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, charts and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 69 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: facial paresis; confusion; and cerebral metastases from a gastric carcinoma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Correspondence relating to male patient first examined in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: bronchogenic carcinoma with metastasis; paraplegia; cyanosis; and confusion. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.