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, report, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma; headache; hemiparesis; memory difficulties; hydrocephalus; and dysphasia. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: aphasia; neurosyphilis; eye pain; memory loss; cerebrovascular disease; and hemiparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; memory defect; euphoria; epilepsy; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and report relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 70 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral arteriosclerosis; epilepsy; memory defect; mental deterioration; and spastic hemiparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; aphasia; memory deterioration; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 68 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: sarcoma; swelling at back of skull; weakness; homonymous hemianopia; hemiparesis; exophthalmos; spatial disorientation; and amnesia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male airman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: severe contusional head injury; resultant right hemiparesis; dysarthria; and memory impairment. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, black-and-white photographs, autopsy report and chart relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 42 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: bilateral subdural haematoma following unspecified head injury; meningitis consequent upon operative infection; progressive impairment of memory; and right hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, chart and black-and-white photographs relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 48 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: congenital cirsoid anomaly in right cerebral hemisphere causing subarachnoid and intracerebral bleeding; residual left hemiparesis; and memory deficiencies. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.