University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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The General Cancer Register gives, for each patient, number, name, date, from which ward or hospital, diagnosis.

Specific Cancer Registers give, for each patient, year, name, serial number, date of first treatment, stage, record of years alive after start of treatment, date of death. Patients are arranged alphabetically under first year of treatment.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The General Cancer Register gives, for each patient, number, name, date, from which ward or hospital, diagnosis.

Specific Cancer Registers give, for each patient, year, name, serial number, date of first treatment, stage, record of years alive after start of treatment, date of death. Patients are arranged alphabetically under first year of treatment.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The General Cancer Register gives, for each patient, number, name, date, from which ward or hospital, diagnosis.

Specific Cancer Registers give, for each patient, year, name, serial number, date of first treatment, stage, record of years alive after start of treatment, date of death. Patients are arranged alphabetically under first year of treatment.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The General Cancer Register gives, for each patient, number, name, date, from which ward or hospital, diagnosis.

Specific Cancer Registers give, for each patient, year, name, serial number, date of first treatment, stage, record of years alive after start of treatment, date of death. Patients are arranged alphabetically under first year of treatment.

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Demonstration board with an x-ray showing the brain of a named patient with an aneurysm which simulated a tumour, and accompanying notes on ther case. Labelled on the back as 'Saccular Aneurysm: Internal Carotid/Opthalmic.'

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Demonstration board with three x-rays showing the brain of a named patient with an aneurysm simulating a brain tumour and accompanying notes on the case, with details of what is shown in each film.

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Correspondence concerning particular patients' cases.

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Carbon dust drawing of a cross-section of brain from the top showing a tumour and cysts. Annotated on cover,'Epidermoid cyst (Dundee Case)' and on back, 'Pearly tumour April 1956', with a patient's name.

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Two drawings of the back of the brain at the base of the skull, one showing condition and one undergoing procedure.

Scope and Contents Black and white line drawing, showing the side profile of a head and detail of a brain with a tumour undergoing a procedure. Sagittal view of the head depicting a cerebellar tumour causing hydrocephalus of the lateral and third ventricles because of cerebral aqueduct compression. A drain has been placed into the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle to drain CSF and reduce the mass effect exerted on surrounding brain tissue. Annotated on back, although part of note cut off at edge, "too...