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Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, notes and black and white photos relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: banged head on door; frontal headaches; peculiar behaviour; smells burning; not seeing as well with left eye; photophobia; staggering; vomiting; drowsiness; unconscious; intracranial hypertension; hypertonus of all four limbs; chronic subdural haematoma; and malignant glioma. Surgical...

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Typed case summary, correspondence, autopsy report and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 47 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: numbness in arm; epilepsy; unconsciousness; headaches; vomiting; drowsy; astrocytoma; glioma; and glioblastoma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 48 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; vomiting; drowsiness; weakness; exhaustion; unconsciousness; delirium; hypotonus; glioblastoma; and glioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: malignant glioma; headache; blackouts; Jacksonian fits; drowsiness; and hypostatic pneumonia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, notes, charts and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 61 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: unconsciousness; hemiplegia; unsteadiness; intracranial pressure; and glioma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1957. Conditions mentioned include: headache; dysphasia; unconsciousness; glioma; and memory deterioration. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Notes, correspondence, reports, autopsy report, typed case summary and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: malignant right frontal glioma; blackouts; papilloedema; and pulmonary embolism. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Notes, typed case summary, correspondence, report and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: malignant glioma (left frontal); frontal headaches; black-outs; and weakness in right limbs. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.