University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 67 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: subdural haematoma; brainstem ischaemia; head injury; fissure fracture of skull; and comatose. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and note relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 65 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: subdural haematoma; extradural haematoma; facial weakness; fractured skull; head injury; anoxia; brainstem ischaemia; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; subdural haematoma; skull fracture; comatose; contusional brain injury; midbrain ischaemia; and infarction of brainstem. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 66 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: severe head injury; fractured skull; subdural haematoma; unconsciousness; hemiparesis; incontinence; and ischaemia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 16 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: severe deceleration head injury; fractured skull; unconsciousness; haematoma; oedema; amnesia; conscussion; ischaemic damage; headaches; dizziness; and vertigo. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; unconsciousness; hemiplegia; brain haemorrhages; brainstem ischaemia; and skull fractures. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: fractured skull; intracerebral haemorrhage; head injury; subdural hygroma; and brainstem ischaemia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed correspondence, notes, photographs and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; brainstem ischaemia; unconsciousness; haematoma; laceration; and skull fracture. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.