University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary, correspondence, reports, charts and photographs relating to male joiner fourth class fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: headache; weakness of limbs; angioblastic meningioma; epilepsy; cerebral atrophy; optic atrophy; hemiparesis; porencephalic cysts; keratitis; todd's palsy; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report, photographs and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; drowsiness; papilloedema; intellectual deterioration; hemiparesis; bronchial carcinoma; bronchopnuemonia; cerebral tumour; renal ademomata; secondary glioblastoma; and hypertension. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, reports relating to male patientfrom Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: closed head injury; epileptic attacks; epilepticus; hemiparesis; unconsciousness; scalp haematoma; facial weakness; and bronchopneumonia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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....

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Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 56 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: headache; gout; epilepsy; hemiparesis; emotional instability; depression; astrocytoma; haematoma; malignant glioma; broncho-pneumonia; and head injury. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, reports, charts, photographs, autopsy report, note and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; headache; ataxia; aphasia; intracranial tumour; hemiparesis; papilloedema; affective disorder; meningitis; bronchopneumonia; spastic gait; and post-irradiation endartertitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, notes, report, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 54 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombosis; bronchial pneumonia; myocardial infarction; limb weakness; hemipaeresis; epilepsy; and cerebral atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, chart, reports and correspondence relating to male patient fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: malignant glioma; intracranial pressure; papilloedema; dysphasia; confusion; cerebral tumour; hemiparesis; sixth nerve palsy; hemianopia; and bronchopneumonia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 69 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; paresis; cerebral arterio-sclerosis; thrombosis; Jacksonian seizures; and bronchopneumonia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, photgraphs, x-ray films, autopsy report, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: saccular aneurysm; arterial spasm; subarachnoid haemorrhage; headache; limb spasticity; myocardial infarction; athero-sclerosis; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.