Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, charts, correspondence, notes and black-and-white photographs relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: ear infection; ventriculitis; meningitis; encephalitis; gliosis; brain-stem damage; osteomyelitis; and haemorrhages. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.