Typed case summary, photographs, charts, report and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: multiple cerebral abscesses; aphasia; drowsiness; hemiplegia; intraventricular septal defect; facial palsy; congenital heart disease; pulmonary tuberculosis; and congenital pulmonary stenosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.