University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, autopsy report and photograph relating to male lieutenant commander, surgeon fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 37 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: headache; nausea; vomiting; homonymous hemianopia; papilloedema; melano-carcinoma; sciatic pain; staggering gait; meningioma; lesions; and secondary tumours. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after readmission.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographic negatives, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: sciatica; back pain; thrombo-angiitis obliterans; hemianopia; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: homonymous hemianopia; headaches; cerebral vascular accident; and hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: cancer metastasis; prostate carcinoma; pain; numbness; paresis; and sciatica. No treatment given. Patient discharged.