Surgical Procedures, Operative

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: multiple penetrating wounds in body; depressed fracture of skull; and wound infection. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating gunshot wound in skull and left temporal region; dysphasia; right hemiparesis; and hemianopsia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 24 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating missile wound of skull, brain and scalp; drowsiness; wound infection; and flaccid paralysis of left arm. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 21 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating wound of scalp containing two metallic foreign bodies; lacerated wounds in right thigh; and wound infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 19 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: small compound fracture of skull; penetrating wound in right heel; and wound infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 18 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound of chest and arm; paraplegia; bilateral pleural effusion; and dyspnoea. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and charts relating to male soldier from outside Great Britain aged 28 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: chronic backache; bilateral sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; hyperaesthesia; and atrophy in left leg. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: sciatic neuritis due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; scoliosis of lumbar spine; lumbosacral pain; and haematoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; resultant left hemiparesis; and headaches. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male airman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: right sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; lumbago; and paraesthesiae. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.