University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary and charts relating to male private fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headache; leg pain; epileptiform seizures; subdural haematoma; epilepsy; mental deterioration; and organic brain damage. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and corespondence relating to male p.o.w from outside Great Britain aged 23 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; unconciousness; left hemiplegia; subdural haematoma; and papilloedema. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, note, charts and correspondence relating to male aircraftman from outside Great Britain aged 28 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: unconciousness; skull fracture; left subdural haematoma; right spastic hemiparesis; and slight dysphagia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 42 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: chronic subdural haematoma; dysphasia; papilloedema; and headache. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 23 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: chronic left-sided subdural haematoma; and headaches. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report, and correspondence relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 36 or 37 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: subdural haematoma; recurrent cystitis and epididymitis; paresis of left leg; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, black-and-white photographs, autopsy report and chart relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 42 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: bilateral subdural haematoma following unspecified head injury; meningitis consequent upon operative infection; progressive impairment of memory; and right hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male air mechanic from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: right-sided subdural haematoma (result of a head injury); left-sided epileptiform convulsions; frontal headaches; and photophobia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to head and scalp complicated by subdural haematoma; scalp neuritis; middle ear deafness; and frontal headaches. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.