University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary and notes relating to male aircraftman second classfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: jargon aphasia; head injury; skull fracture; hemiplegia; hemparalysis of spastic type; and hypertonus. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: severe head injuries; brain damage; compound skull fracture; headache; personality change; amnesia; hypertonus; and infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: skull fracture; fractured arm; head injury; hypertonic limbs; leptomeningitis; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull with resultant spastic weakness in left arm and both legs; amnesia; and hypertonus in legs and left arm. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 54 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: fractured skull; hypertonus of limbs; damage to acoustic nerve; deafness; hyperreflexia of limbs; and head injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.