Typed case summary, charts, notes and black and white photos relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: banged head on door; frontal headaches; peculiar behaviour; smells burning; not seeing as well with left eye; photophobia; staggering; vomiting; drowsiness; unconscious; intracranial hypertension; hypertonus of all four limbs; chronic subdural haematoma; and malignant glioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.