Meningitis

Typed case summary, photographs, photographic negatives, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: neck pain; vomiting; squint; meningitis; papilloedema; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Autopsy report, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 56 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: meningoencephalitis; carcinoma; hydrocephalus; vomiting; diplopia; and leptomeningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, report and photographs relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 13 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headache; meningitis; failure of vision; hydrocephalus; glioma; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 10 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: tiredness; head injury; diplopia; papilloedema; intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: squint; intracranial pressure; meningitis; and papilloedema. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 6 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; diplopia; squint; meningitis; papilloedema; and intracranial pressure. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and autopsy report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; meningitis; ventriculitis; and subependymal abscess. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, drawing, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 37 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: failure of vision; meningioma; headache; diplopia; intracranial pressure; meningitis; hydrocephalus; and head injury. Surgical 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.