University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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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.

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Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 11 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; meningitis; and thrombophlebitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: thrombophlebitis; brain abscess; vomiting; headache; and vertigo. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 3 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombophlebitis; headache; vomiting; and hemiparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: suppurative thrombophelebitis; sinus infection; headaches; vomiting; unsteadiness of gait; facial paresis; amnesia; and dysrythmia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombophlebitis; dizziness; headache; otitis media; vomiting; and limb weakness. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, tracer card, chart and correspondence relating to male fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 44at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: chromophobe pituitary tumour; headache; vomiting; thrombophlebitis; and diplopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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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.

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Typed case summary, charts, report, note and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: brain abscess; limb weakness; headache; vomiting; papilloedema; ataxia; septic thrombophlebitis; hemiparesis; and focal epileptic attacks. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts, autopsy reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: paraplegia; meningo-myelitis; loin pain; infected bladder; enlarged prostate; spinal tumour; vomiting; ulcers; bedsores; oedemas; faeces and urine incontinence; nausea; thrombophlebitis; sacral pressure sores; mitral stenosis; pulmonary congestion; bilateral hydronephrosis; and...