Shrapnel Wounds

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 23 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; concussion; and scalp wound. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: shrapnel wound. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, drawings and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 30 at first examination in1943 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound; neck pain; shrapnel injury; infective neuritis; abscess in supraclavicular region; muscular atrophy; and spetic lesions. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and typed case summary relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: shrapnel wound to the head; hemiplegia; epilepsy; and 'absences'. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: combat injury; fits; paresis; venous thrombosis; and cerebral abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; and shrapnel wounds. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 22 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: shrapnel wound; head injury; and headache. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and report relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: shrapnel wound; headache; facial pain; traumatic neuritis; and ear infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary relating to male labourer from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: peripheral nerve, left median plantar nerve and left median nerve injury due to shrapnel pieces; amputation of right lower limb; and slight corneal opacity in left eye. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary and chart relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: shrapnel wound in left parietal-occipital region; post-traumatic epilepsy with a tendency to absent-mindedness; and aphasia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.