Meningitis

Typed case summary, reports and autopsy report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: paraparesis; back pain; meningitis; epidural abscess; and staphylococcal suppuration. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 5 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: squint; meningitis; hydrocephalus; encephalitis; and motor disabilities. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 48 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: post-inflammatory neuritis; sciatic pain; meningitis; and paraesthesiae. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: headache; and meningitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 2 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: enteritis; b. coli; cystitis; diarrhoea; meningismus; vomiting; paraparesis; urinary incontinence; faecal incontinence; spina bifida; and low-grade meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 13 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; and syphilis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: depressed skull fracture; meningitis; work accident; and head injury. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; sinus thrombosis; meningitis; ependymitis; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: failure of vision; headache; papilloedema; hydrocephalus; meningitis; pulmonary tuberculosis; and tuberculoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 31 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: arachnoiditis; headache; dizziness; ependymoma; intracranial pressure; and leptomeningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.