Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report, charts and correspondence relating to male fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 52at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: hypotonic limbs; paralysis; pulmonary collapse; polyneuritis; papilloedema; intracranial tension; spinal cord lesion; urine retention; myelitis; vascular anomaly; and degeneration of spinal cord. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.