University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: recurring coma; diplopia; vomiting; headache; and oliguria. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female patient aged 51 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: coma; and unconsciousness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 25 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: meningeal irritation; coma; barbiturate poisoning; headaches; and amnesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 20 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fractured mandible; unconsciousness; fractured clavicle; thrombophlebitis; fractured cranial fossa; comatose; epileptiform convulsion; and subdural clot. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; myxoedema; paranoid state; hyperthyroidism; coma; unconsciousness; lacerations; and dysphasia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: post-meningitic midbrain thrombopheblitis; giddiness; visual disturbance; staggering; headache; neck stiffness; otitis media; coma; unconsciousness; encephalitis; and deep vein thrombosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 75 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: severe head injury; chest injuries; unconsciousness; drowsiness; dyspnoea; coma; haemorrhage; haematoma; and brain ischaemia. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2. Patient not examined. Conditions mentioned include: pneumococcal meningitis; subarachnoid adhesions; head injury; vision disorders; hydrocephalus; coma; vomiting; oedema; papilloedema; and seizure. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, report; autopsy reports, charts and photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: bronchial carcinoma; intracranial metastases; abdominal pain; sickness; headache; difficulty in balancing; tinnitus; drowsiness; and coma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 32 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: subarachnoid haemorrhage; headache; neck stiffness; and coma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.