Headache

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 18 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: paresis; headache; vomiting; haemorrhage; and diplopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 34 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: paresis; headache; diplopia; fits; facial pain; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; and epidermoid carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; failure of vision; papilloedema; and meningoencephalitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headache; acromegaly; and eosinophil adenoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 42 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; unsteadiness; headache; meningitis; opisthotonos; ataxia; cyst; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 16 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; diplopia; unsteadiness; and inflammation. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; aphasia; and aneurysm. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; depression; subdural haematoma; epilepsy; paresis; and tumour. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; headache; prolapsed intervertebral disc; back pain; neurinoma; haemangioblastoma; diplopia; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several admissions.