University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary relating to male firemanfrom outside Great Britain aged 35 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull; local brain injury; partial astereognosis; and slight spastic dyssynergia in fingers. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male lance corporal fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to head; dysarthria; double vision; twitching; headache; nystagmus; diplopia; facial weakness; hypermetria; hemiparesis; and hemihypoaesthesia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male private fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: dysarthria; ataxia; incontinence; homonymous hemianopia; hemi-anaesthesia; hemiparesis; aphasia; cerebral thrombosis; and nystagmus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to maleprivate fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: headache; diplopia; epileptic attacks; deafness; homonymous hemianopia; papilloedema; facial palsy; brain tumour; nystagmus; ataxia; meningioma; hydrocephalus; and unsteadiness of gait. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, and correspondence relating to male gunnerfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: ear pain; headache; facial paresis; diplopia; papilloedema; chronic suppurative right otitis; mastoiditis; ataxia; meningitis; and hemianopia; post neuritic atrophy; post otitic cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female cookfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 23 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: dizzy attacks; headache; ataxia; and vertiginous attacks. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, drawing, charts and note relating to male lance corporalfromoutside Great Britain aged 22 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: nystagmus; ataxia; organic disease of nervous system; and encephalo-myelitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports and chart relating to male lance corporal fromoutside Great Britain aged 35 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headache; glioma; astrocytoma; nausea; syphilis; cerebellar hemiataxia; papilloedema; and homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, x-ray film, drawing, chart, notes and correspondence relating to male lieutenant commander from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in1943 Conditions mentioned include: deafness; acoustic neurinoma; facial paresis; ataxia; nystagmus; papilloedema; and diplopia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: diffuse encephalopathy of pugilists ("punch-drunk"); opisthotonos; generalised ataxia; and hypertonus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.