University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 55 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: failure of vision; headache; unsteadiness; weight loss; and stroke. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female housewife from east Edinburgh aged 45 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: ?disseminated sclerosis; loss of weight; and abnormal gait. Family history of...

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Typed case summary, notes, autopsy report, drawings and black and white photographs relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 31 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: tiredness; weight loss; nausea; giddiness; headache; vomiting; constipated; diplopia; unsteadiness; intracranial pressure; glioblastoma; mitoses; astrocytoma; malignant metaplasia; and secondary pneumonia. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: headache; weight loss; unsteadiness; and tumour. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, drawing, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar abscess; vomiting; weight loss; unsteadiness; dizziness; and vertigo. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; weight loss; speech disorder; and unsteadiness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 58 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; weight loss; memory defect; unsteadiness; and carcinoma metastasis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: bronchial carcinoma; unsteadiness; headache; weight loss; and seconday neoplasm. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, reports, charts, note and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; weight loss; secondary cerebral tumour; dysarthria; ependymoma; increased intracranial tension; papilloedema; facial palsy; deteriorating vision; and drop foot. Surgical and nonsurgical 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 44 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: bone neoplasm; bronchial carcinoma; low back pain; gait disorder; and weight loss. No treatment given. Patient discharged.