University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: dazed condition; unable to speak; unconscious; fits; very thirsty; poor memory; numbness in right arm; pain in back and abdomen; cyanosis; dysphasic disturbances; aphasia; sarcoma; and metastasis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: Jacksonian attacks in arm; progressive loss of power in right limb; spastic arm; bronchial carcinoma; and metastasis involving the pyramidal tract. No treatment given. Patient discharged.