Typed case summary, autopsy report, note, reports and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: aneurysm; subarachnoid haemorrhage; cerebral vascular spasm; hyperthermia; coma; circulatory failure; and subhyaloid retinal haemorrhage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.