Meningitis

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 11 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; meningitis; and thrombophlebitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, black and white photographs, charts and notes relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 25 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; nausea; headache; vomiting; insomnia; facial weakness; hydrocephalus; and benign lymphocytic meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated meningoencephalitis; meningitis; nausea; jaundice; and pleocytosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 18 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: acoustic neuroma; papilloedema; nystagmus; hydrocephalus; and meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 1 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; and hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: pneumococcal meningitis; head injury; and intracranial pressure. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; headache; staggering; meningitis; papilloedema; acoustic neuroma; tremor; and post-encephalitic syndrome. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; subdural abscess; and arthritis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and autopsy report relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: facial injury; meningitis; meningoencephalitis; compound skull fracture; and Parkinsonian tremor. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 7 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; and pneumococcal meningitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.