University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: multiple cerebral lesions; metastasis; primary cancer of cervix; headaches; vomiting; vision disorders; weakness; low back pain; and papilloedema. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, autopsy report, notes, photographs, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 48 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: secondary bronchial carcinoma; confusion; drowsiness; incontinence; papilloedema; ptosis; facial weakness; fits; hydrocephalus; bronchopneumonia; and epilepsy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 43 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: functional nervous disorder; attacks of unconsciousness; deterioration of memory and vision; headache; vomiting; diplopia; papilloedma; nystagmus; backache; insomnia; depression; lower lumbar disc protrusion. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, note and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; weight loss; secondary cerebral tumour; dysarthria; ependymoma; increased intracranial tension; papilloedema; facial palsy; deteriorating vision; and drop foot. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and photograph relating to male patient fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: bronchial carcinoma; headache; papilloedema; secondary cerebral and kidney neoplasms. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral metasteses; aphasia; headache; vomiting; homonymous hemianopia; papilloedema; intracranial tumour; and primary bronchogenic carcinoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, correspondence, charts, photographs and autopsy report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 58 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: otitis media; dizziness; deafness; papilloedema; hypertension; broncho pneumonia; osteomyelitis; cerebral metastases; intracranial tension; and epileptic fits. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reoprt, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: febrile illness; lymphocytic meningitis; papilloedema; 6th nerve paresis; epileptic attack; and csf pleocytosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.