University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: chordoma; low back pain; sciatica; weakness; and retention of faeces. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: punch drunk syndrome; prolapsed intervertebral disc; Parkinsonism; tremors; sleep disorder; weakness; atrophy; constipation; and leg pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, reports and photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: nerve root pain; prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; sciatica; weakness; osteoarthritis; and constipation. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.