Headache

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: unconsciousness; staggering; inclined to left; drowsiness; headaches; aphasia; and subdural haemorrage. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: slowness; forgetfulness; disorientation; loss of power in both legs; lowering of speech to a whisper; headache; sickness; intracerebral lesion; oedema; and glioma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, autopsy report, correspondence and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 14 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: lobar pneumonia; sleepiness; vomiting; headache; hyperaesthesia; and tuberculous meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: bilateral florid papilloedema; headaches; vomiting; external hydrocephalus; and epileptic attacks. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, autopsy report and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; epileptic attacks; and hypertension. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, autopsy report, drawings and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: numbness in feet and toes; motor symptoms; involuntary jerking of lower limbs; meningioma; brown-sequard syndrome; hyperaesthesia; headache; and carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: reddened tongue; pain in cheek; frontal headache; bilious vomiting; right sided tinnitus and deafness; fainting turns; central trigeminal pains; transient vasospastic attacks; and pallor of the hands. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents 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...

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Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, notes, black and white photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: stiffness in right leg; headaches; and sick turns. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, drawings, black and white photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; vomiting; headache; horizontal diplopia; facial weakness; papilloedema; intracranial bleeding; tumour; intracranial haemorrhage; and angioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.