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, correspondence, charts and photographs relating to male staff sergeant fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: compound skull fracture; severe concussional head injury; dysphasia; left hemiparesis; unconsciousness; somnolence; attacks of fainting; and minor epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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.

Typed case summary, charts, drawings, autopsy report, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to femalecorporal fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: effects of head injury; headache; homonymous hemianopia; hemiparesis; blood clot on brain; coma; localised epilepsy; and post traumatic cerebral scarring. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, correspondence, photograph, and chart relating to male stoker from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 41 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: delirium; hemiparesis; papilloedema; homonymouns hemianopia; astereognosis; astrocytoma; limb-kinetic apraxia; incontinence; brain tumour; glioblastoma multiforme; and brainstem haemorrhage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, report, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: pulmonary bronchiectasis; empyema; multiple cerebral abscesses; and hemiparesis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, report, black-and-white photograph, autopsy report, correspondence and chart relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 22 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: intracerebral haemorrhage; left flaccid hemiparesis; concussional head injury; and generalised brain oedema with tentorial impaction. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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, charts, notes and black-and-white photograph relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 21 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: aneurysm (left anterior cerebral artery); subarachnoid haemorrhage; left hemiparesis; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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.