University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary, notes, report, black-and-white photograph, X-ray films and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: ?cerebral abscess; ?septic sinus thrombosis; epilepsy; and papilloedema. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: papilloedema; boil; drowsy; vomiting; proptosis; ulcer; thrombosis; headache and osteomyelitis. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, charts and notes relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 23 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; intracranial pressure; septic thrombosis; and papilloedema . Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: aphasia; hemianopia; angioma; thrombosis; papilloedema; thrombosis; aneurysm; and fits. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 25 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: venous sinus thrombosis; headache; nausea; papilloedema; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral venous thrombosis; vomiting; unconsciousness; papilloedema; hemiparesis; and fits. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: headache; papilloedema; and siggital sinus thrombosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombosis; headache; vomiting; paresis; facial weakness; aphasia; unconsiousness; haemorrhage; and papilloedema. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, note, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: external otitic hydrocephalus; papiloedema; headache; intracranial pressure; vomiting; and venous sinus thrombosis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: increase intracranial pressure; headache; bilateral papilloedema; right abducens palsy; paresis; hypoglossal palsy; fulminating bronchopneumonia; chordoma; blurred vision; blindness; ptosis; obesity; haemorrhage; vomiting; venous sinus thrombosis; arterial hypertension; and carcinoma of the rectum....