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 and correspondence relating to male leading aircraftman fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: facial weakness; headache; anxiety neurosis; and loss of memory. No 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 relating to male leading aircraftman fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 24 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: headache; dyspnoea; memory difficulties; and anxiety neurosis. No 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.

Charts, drawings, correspondence and photographs relating to male private aged 24 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: pneumoccocal meningitis; memory defect; paraesthesiae; visual field defects; amnesia; homonymous hemianopic defects; brain atrophy; and lesion. No 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 and notes relating to male privatefromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 34 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: severe cerebral contusion; cerebral atrophy; aphasia; dizziness; intellectual deterioration; memory retention defect; apraxia; agnosia; hypertonicity in right extremities; and head injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male gunnerfrom Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 31 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: alexia; headache; loss of memory; facial weakness; epilepsy; and drowsiness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.