University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 13 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: optic atrophy; headache; vomiting; failure of vision; cyst; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 9 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: astroblastoma; vomiting; cyst; fits; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital following several admissions.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; cyst; and glioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, drawing, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; vomiting; endothelioma; Meniere's disease; papilloedema;; hallucinations of smell; hemianopia; and cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: astroblastoma; head injury; fits; headache; vomiting; spongioblastoma; cyst; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; meningitis; hydrocephalus; headache; cyst; astrocytoma; and glioblastoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports, drawing, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: aphasia; vomiting; hemiparesis; headache; glioblastoma; and cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, autopsy reports and reports relating to female from Scotland ( outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headache; vomiting; unconsciousness; drowsy; poor concentration and memory; hands weak and shaky; obstructive hydrocephalus; suprasellar cyst; pituitary tumour; adenoma; bitemporal hemianopia; somnolence; and weight loss. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 54 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; facial pain; glioblastoma; and cyst. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, tracer card and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 2 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; cyst; meningitis; vomiting; failure of vision; mental retardation; unsteadiness; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.