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Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: increase intracranial pressure; headache; bilateral papilloedema; right abducens palsy; paresis; hypoglossal palsy; fulminating bronchopneumonia; chordoma; blurred vision; blindness; ptosis; obesity; haemorrhage; vomiting; venous sinus thrombosis; arterial hypertension; and carcinoma of the rectum....

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 77 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; anosmia; vascular hypertension; loss of vision; proptosis; and 6th nerve palsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Chart, report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; dysarthria; cerebral thrombosis; hemiparesis; homonymous field defect; 6th nerve paresis; and hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, photographs, chart, report, note, court documents and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: compound depressed skull fracture; scalp lacerations; hemianopia; 6th nerve palsy; anosmia; personality change; amnesia; and visual damage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and chart relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 78 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: gradual loss of vision; diplopia; and sixth nerve palsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, photographic film, note, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; cerebral tumour; 6th nerve palsy; loss of vision; epilepsy; headache; papilloedema; and hypoaesthenia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: traumatic carotid-cavernous fistula; head inury; tinnitus; dimness of vision; headache; eyewatering; oedema; third and sixth nerve paresis; and exophthalmos. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: extradural carcinoma; neoplasm; trigeminal neuralgia; facial pain; sixth nerve paresis; vision disorder; scotoma; deafness; sensory defects; blindness; deafness; tinnitus; and aphasia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: unilateral blindness; left abducens palsy; blurring of vision; and headache. No treatment given. Patient discharged.