University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 63 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; comatose state; papilloedema; and tumour. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: hypertension; coma; papilloedema; and headache. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; semi-comatose; virus infection; epileptic seizures; papilloedema; hemiparesis; neck stiffness; and spasticity. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photograph, autopsy report, report, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 36 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; comatose; cerebral glioma; brainstem ishaemia; papilloedema; headache; confusion; and vomiting. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, report, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 1 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; cerebral atrophy; coma; papilloedema; virus encephalitis; and carcinomatous of the meninges. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, drawing, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 56 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral metastasis; comatose; papilloedema; mental deterioration; and early presenile atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2. Patient not examined. Conditions mentioned include: pneumococcal meningitis; subarachnoid adhesions; head injury; vision disorders; hydrocephalus; coma; vomiting; oedema; papilloedema; and seizure. No treatment given. Patient discharged.