University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, chart, note, photograph, correspondence and autopsy report relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; hand tremor; olfactory aura; facial paresis; glioblastoma multiforme; glioblastoma; anosmia; homonomous hemianopia; defective memory; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: tremor of leg; ataxia; headache; vomiting; hemianopia; paresis; paralysis; and glioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 54 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial pressure; glioma; hemianopia; hemiparesis; vomiting; and facial pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: tiredness; headache; vomiting; failure of vision; hemiparesis; hemianopia; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: fits; head injury; paresis; hemianopia; and glioblastoma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 57 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; hemiparesis; hemianopia; and glioblastoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: aseptic thrombopheblitis; respiratory infection; hemiparesis; homonymous hemianopia; vomiting; nasal discharge; epilepsy; seizures; clonic movements; and haematoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence and handwritten notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: infiltrating astrocytoma; headache; vomiting; bilateral papilloedema; hemiparesis; hemianesthesia; and hemianopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: aphasia; papilloedema; spastic hemiparesis; vomiting; limb weakness; hemianopia; and infiltrating glioma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; unconsciousness; headaches; vomiting; seizures; papilloedema; ataxia; cerebral venous thrombosis; hemiparesis; nystagmus; vision disorder; dysphasia; thrombopheblitis; and homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.