Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, autopsy report, and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; sciatica; head injury; unconsiousness; bronchial spasms; asthma; bronchitis; fractured tibia; and burn injury. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.