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Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: through-and-through bullet wound to the brain; residual left homonymous hemianopia; post-traumatic personality change; and post-traumatic amnesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, report, and notes relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 32 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: severe head injury; post-traumatic epilepsy; anxiety neurosis; and hypochondriasis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: occipital scalp lacerations; cerebral contusion; fracture of skull; and retrograde and post-traumatic amnesia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 37 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; neurosis; headache; and paraesthesiae. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to skull and shoulder; diplopia; mild anxiety neurosis; and minimal sign of cerebral damage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: superficial scalp wound; mild neurosis; dizziness; and tremor of fingers. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 40 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: chronic lumbar backache; referred left sciatic pain due to prolapsed intervertebral disc. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: multiple penetrating wounds in body; depressed fracture of skull; and wound infection. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating gunshot wound in skull and left temporal region; dysphasia; right hemiparesis; and hemianopsia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating missile wound of skull, brain and scalp; drowsiness; wound infection; and flaccid paralysis of left arm. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.