Surgical Procedures, Operative

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: pain on face; and trigeminal neuralgia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: unconsciousness; staggering; inclined to left; drowsiness; headaches; aphasia; and subdural haemorrage. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, correspondence and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 14 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: lobar pneumonia; sleepiness; vomiting; headache; hyperaesthesia; and tuberculous meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 69 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; and trigeminal neuralgia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report and chart relating to male patient first examined in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: broken back; crushing of the first lumbar vertebra; total paraplegia; and oedema. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: bilateral florid papilloedema; headaches; vomiting; external hydrocephalus; and epileptic attacks. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, autopsy report and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; epileptic attacks; and hypertension. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, autopsy report, drawings and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: numbness in feet and toes; motor symptoms; involuntary jerking of lower limbs; meningioma; brown-sequard syndrome; hyperaesthesia; headache; and carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothiansfirst examined in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: blanching of the hands and feet; cyanosis; circulatory disturbance of the limbs; and pain in shoulder and neck. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: subacute staphylococcal abscesses; periosteal sarcoma; pain in upper abdomen and back; and paraparesis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.