Meningitis

Typed case summary, reports, charts and autopsy report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: otitis media; vomiting; papilloedema; headache; lumbar pain; confusion; intracranial pressure; photophobia; cerebellar ataxia; intracranial thrombophlebitits; TB meningitis; hydrocephalus; B. Pyocyaneus meningitis; and hemiballismus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence, handwritten notes and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 7 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; slight hemiparesis; and benign lymphocytic meningitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; chronic meningitis; lung abscess; headache; polymorph pleocytosis; hemianopia; papilloedema; tremor; and pyrexial illness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 35 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: multiple cerebral abscesses; bronchiectasis; meningitis; papilloedema; ptosis; brain oedema; hemiparesis; and toxaemia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; benign lymphocytic meningitis; and headache. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: intractable pain in leg and pelvis; carcinoma of pelvic colon; pulmonary embolism; pelvic metastases; and meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; chronic arachnoiditis; papilloedema; pleocytosis; adhesive meningitis; neck pain; headache; and nystagmus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, note, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: headache; anosmia; facial asymmetry; rhinorrhoea; and pyogenic meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; meningitis; obesity; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: backache; sciatica; radiculitis; and meningitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.