University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, correspondence, report and charts relating to male private from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: pain in right thigh and hip; fibrillary twitching in legs; muscular weakness on right; and spinal meningial secondary deposit of malignant melanoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: secondary melano-carcinoma; fatigue; nausea; headache; and intracranial pressure. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Autopsy report relating to male aged 44 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: metastases of malignant melanoma; pitosis; incontinence; cachexia; and melanomatosis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts, note and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant melanoma of neck; exophthalmos; cerebral metastases; and third nerve paralysis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: extradural neoplasm; spinal cord compression; back pain; interscapular pain; and metastaic melanoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, report and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: seconday spinal melanoma; girdle pain; kyphosis; paralysis in lower limb; flexor spasms; retention and overflow of urine. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Reports, correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 54 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: nasal melanoma with dissemination in meninges; hydrocephalus; and dysphasia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.