Meningitis

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 39 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis with spinal epiduritis following diagnostic lumbar puncture; and bifrontal headaches. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence and chart relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 22 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: bullet wound in right calf; compound depressed fracture of skull (right parietal region); post-concussional syndrome; and chronic meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 42 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to the head; brain abscess; and leptomeningitis. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 39 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to left temporo-occipital region and elbows; wound infection; cerebral fungus; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: multiple penetrating gunshot wounds in left parietal region; resultant chronic left occipital lobe abscess; blindness; and meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar tuberculoma; tuberculous meningitis; papilloedema; and vomiting. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 18 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: pneumococcal meningitis of obscure origin; bifrontal headache; and vomiting. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound tot the skull; bone fragment in the frontal lobe; and meningitis; and post-traumatic impairment of memory. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, black-and-white photographs, autopsy report and chart relating to male sailor aged 22 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: extensive right parietal subdural abscess; acute pyogenic leptomeningitis spreading from sub-acute empyema of right frontal sinus; and photophobia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, black-and-white photographs, autopsy report and chart relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 42 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: bilateral subdural haematoma following unspecified head injury; meningitis consequent upon operative infection; progressive impairment of memory; and right hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.