University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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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.

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Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; squint; diplopia; and glioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 1 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: squint; vomiting; mental retardation; hydrocephalus; and medulloblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, drawings, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 6 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; squint; astrocytoma; and glioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admissions.

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Typed case summary, charts and report relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 8 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; squint; staggering; and medulloblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: strabismus; somnolence; vomiting; and papilloedema. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: pharyngeal epithelioma; vomiting; nausea; squint; and failure of vision. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, notes, charts and black and white photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 3 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headaches; sickness; staggering; squint; giddy; blind; glioma; glioblastoma; and brain stem tumour. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 4 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; earache; squint; meningitis; intracranial pressure; and abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, charts , autopsy reports and black and white photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: double vision; giddiness; headache; stiff neck; vomiting; sleep disturbances; squint in eye; ependymona; loss of conscienceness; fits; glandular mass on neck; lack of energy; dysarthria; difficultly with vision; difficultly swallowing; weight loss; facial weakness; and homonymous...