Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, autopsy report and photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: osteitis of skull; multiple subdural and cerebral abscesses; right hemiparesis; papilloedema; homonymous hemianopia; dysphasia; and leptomeningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.