University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, chart, note, photograph, correspondence and autopsy report relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; hand tremor; olfactory aura; facial paresis; glioblastoma multiforme; glioblastoma; anosmia; homonomous hemianopia; defective memory; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 44 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; memory loss; papilloedema; and glioblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; post-traumatic epilepsy; headache; and poor memory. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male second lieutenant fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: headache; incontinence; memory deterioration; effects of meningicoccal meningitis; organic dementia; fits; and cortical atrophy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, drawings, charts, correspondence and photographs relating to male corporal fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 27 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; compound skull fracture; headache; dizziness; memory defect; intracranial abscess; slight dysphasic disability; amnesia; anosmia; and displaced left eye. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male sergeant pilot fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: severe concussion; post concussional syndrome; memory defect; personality deterioration; confusion; aphasia; scalp wound; incontinence and post traumatic cerebral atrophy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and notes relating to maleprivate fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: loss of taste and smell; intellectual deterioration following severe head injury; cerebral cortical atrophy; amnesia; headache; giddiness; and memory loss. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to maleaircraftman second class from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: scalp wound; amnesia; paraphasia; severe concussion; impairment of memory; and concussional head injury. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male private fromoutside Great Britain aged 29 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; facial contusions; incomplete supra-nuclear facial paresis; memory and visual perceptive difficulties; headache; and giddiness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male corporal fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: headache; giddiness; head injury; tremor of hands; concussional head injury; memory defect; and anxiety neurosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.