University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male sapper from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 21 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; right homonymous hemianopia; skull fracture; infective cerebral thrombo-phlebitis; septic meningitis; and headaches. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to maleprivate fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound; facial weakness; skull fracture; gross dysphasic disturbance; dysarthria; homonymous hemianopia; and brain damage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male second lieutenant from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 21 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: right lower quadrantic homonymous hemianopia; head injury; tinnitus; dysphasia; dsylexia; dysgraphia; memory impairement; post traumatic epilepsy; and skull fracture. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 70 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: arteriosclerotic Parkinsonism; weakness in arm and leg; loss of vision; constipation; vomiting; tremor; head injury; unconsciousness; fractured skull; haemorrhage; amnesia; concussion. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, notes and charts relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to the head with resultant depressed fracture of left occiput and loss of substance of left occipital lobe; vomiting; and right hemianopsia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: depressed fracture of skull; abscess formation; subsequent right homonymous hemianopia; and "petit mal" attacks. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male airman from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: mortar fragment wound of head; fracture of skull; considerable damage to underlying brain; and right hemianopia. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating gunshot wound in skull and left temporal region; dysphasia; right hemiparesis; and hemianopsia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and drawing relating to male airman from outside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: injuries from revolving airscrew; traumatic amputation of left forearm; compound depressed fracture of skull; and hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 38 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: fungus cerebri; cerebral abscess; depressed fracture of skull; shrapnel wounds to head, back, and left leg; and complete right homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.