Meningitis

Typed case summary, reports, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; bronchiectasis; cerebral abscess; ptosis; and aphasia. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial pressure; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to female from outside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: amblyopia; amenorrhoea; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: fits; leptomeningitis; abscesses; ventriculitis; and gunshot wound. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, report and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; meningitis; tuberculoma; and abscess. Surgical treatment given. Outcome not recorded.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; dizziness; meningitis; papilloedema; and sarcomatosis of meninges. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, tracer card and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 2 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; cyst; meningitis; vomiting; failure of vision; mental retardation; unsteadiness; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 11 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; dizziness; failure of vision; intracranial pressure; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; squint; hydrocephalus; astrocytoma; meningitis; ventriculitis; and pseudo-hypertrophy. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 26 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; diplopia; vomiting; intracranial pressure; papilloedema; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.