University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 31 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headache; ptosis; diplopia; vomiting; dysarthria; failure of vision; oedema; and tumour. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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, autopsy report, notes, correspondence, charts and drawings relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 46 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: difficulty with words; vomiting; depression; weakness in hand; meningioma; and papilloedema. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, autopsy report and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; fits; sickness; twitching; dysphasic phenomenon; epileptic attacks; haemorrhagic papilloedema; glioma; astrocytoma; and hemiparetic. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, autopsy report, charts, notes and black and white photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 19 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headache; sickness; dizzy attacks; difficulty with speech and reading; double vision; earache, noise in ear; papilloedema; ataxia; ependymoblastoma; and epileptic attacks. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, report, charts and photograph relating to male riflemanfrom Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 33 at first examination in 1942 Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; nystagmus; ptosis; headache; dizziness; drowsiness; cerebral oedema; spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage; and subarachnoid haemorrhage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, reports and autopsy reports relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 34 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; vomiting; intracranial hypotension; papilloedema and toxaemia. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, black and white photographs, autopsy report and notes relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headaches; neck and occipital pain; vomiting; amblyopic attacks; diplopia; florid papilloedema; increased intracranial pressure; intracranial hypertension; and neoplasm. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: slowness; forgetfulness; disorientation; loss of power in both legs; lowering of speech to a whisper; headache; sickness; intracerebral lesion; oedema; and glioma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: bilateral florid papilloedema; headaches; vomiting; external hydrocephalus; and epileptic attacks. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.