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, notes, reports, drawings, photographs, charts nurses' report books and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 16 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; paresis; medullo-blastoma cerebelli; thrombocytopoenic purpura; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, photographs, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 9 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: peri-cerebellar leptomeningitis; astrocytoma; headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; ataxia; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, photographs, charts, nurses' report book and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 5 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; headache; and vomiting. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, photographs, charts, nurses' report book and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 5 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; headache; and vomiting. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 4 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; blindness; and astroctyoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 8 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; cyst; meningitis; astrocytoma; and glioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 12 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: squint; vomiting; pinealoma; hydrocephalus; angioma; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; epigastric pain; headache; intracranial pressure; difficulty with vision; deafness; papilloedema; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs, report and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 5 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; glioma; diplopia; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.