Surgical Procedures, Operative

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Typed case summary, charts, notes, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; astrocytoma; diplopia; and papilloedema. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

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Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; papilloedema; hemiplegia; paraesthesia; diabetes insipidus; and craniopharyngioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 7 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fits; leg weakness; and diplopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; staggering; tinnitus; meningo-encephalitis; and medulloblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, correspondence, drawings, autopsy report, black-and-white photographs and photographic negatives relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; gait disorders; spinal cord compression; paraplegia; and achondroplasia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence and autopsy report relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: lumbago; numbness in arm and leg; head pain; difficulty talking; difficulty writing; inability to read; vomiting; drowsiness; dizzy turns; staggering; and weight loss. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, charts and report relating to male from outside Great Britain aged 28 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; vomiting; horizontal diplopia; poor concentration; absences; deterioration of vision; slow speech; third ventricle tumour; and cerebral tumour. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, correspondence, charts and drawings relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: blindness from glaucoma and cataract; headaches; pain on left half of forehead; pain in eye; and trigeminal neuralgia . Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, charts , autopsy reports and black and white photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: double vision; giddiness; headache; stiff neck; vomiting; sleep disturbances; squint in eye; ependymona; loss of conscienceness; fits; glandular mass on neck; lack of energy; dysarthria; difficultly with vision; difficultly swallowing; weight loss; facial weakness; and homonymous...

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Typed case summary, correspondence, charts and autopsy reports relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 6 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; staring; irregular respiration; squint; hearing in right ear impaired; fracture of the occipital bone and right side of the base; papilloedema; and posterior fossa clot. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.