Typed case summary, reports, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: von Recklinghausen syndrome; neurofibromatosis; astrocytoma; headache; failure of vision; neurofibromatosis; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.