University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fractured skull; cerebral laceration; and haemorrhage in hypothalamus. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and autopsy report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral contusion and laceration; skull fracture; head injury; and haemorrhage. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, photographs, chart, reports and autopsy report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: laceration; hemiplegia; fractured jaw; fractured sternum; subdural haematoma; intracerebral haemorrhage; trauma to the brain; severe head injury. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary relating to male airman from outside Great Britain aged 28 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fractured skull and jaw; lacerations; and hip dislocation. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and chart relating to male air gunner from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: severe concussional head injury with compound fracture of skull implicating frontal sinuses; scalp lacerations; fractured patella; and scalp neuritis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: severe concussional head injury; lacerations; fractured skull; hematemesis; and haematoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: scalp lacerations with compound fracture of skull. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: occipital scalp lacerations; cerebral contusion; fracture of skull; and retrograde and post-traumatic amnesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male airman aged 25 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; scalp lacerations; fracture of base of skull; and peripheral left facial palsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 50 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull (right frontal region); scalp lacerations; small skull defect; and diplopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.