University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting;; failure of vision; mental change; and abscess. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 13 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; vomiting; headache; and cerebellar abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 8 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: sore throat; vomiting; meningitis; and temporal lobe abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report and photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: somnolence; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; carcinoma; and brain abscess. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; headache; fits; vomiting; intracranial pressure; and otitis media. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, reports, autopsy report and photograph relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 26 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; vomiting; headache; facial paresis; deafness; and cerebellar abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several admissions.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts, black and white photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: catarrhal discharge; vomiting; headaches; tuberculous meningitis; oedema; frontal sinusitis; thrombophlebitis; osteomyelitis; pericranial and extradural abscesses; and cerebral abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; otorrhoea; facial paralysis; intracranial pressure; and cerebellar abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; meningitis; tuberculoma; and abscess. Surgical treatment given. Outcome not recorded.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; unsteadiness; diplopia; and cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.