Surgical Procedures, Operative

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; sciatica; and bronchitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; sciatica; and infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, charts and x-rays relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 43 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: aneurysm; subarachnoid haemorrhage; headaches; vomiting; unconsciousness; speech disorder; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: saccular aneurysm; subarachnoid haemorrhage; high blood pressure; unconsciousness; vomiting; incontinence; retinal haemorrhage; hemiparesis; confusion; deep vein thrombosis; and fit. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; headaches; dysphasia; amnesia; and deafness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; depression; and paranoid state. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 24 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: mental disorder; pyschopathic behaviour; schizophrenic process; birth trauma; backward; and syphilis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; and sciatica. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 68 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: spinal compression; metastasis; retrasternal pain; shoulder pain; weakness; paraesthesia; retention of urine; retention of faeces; rheumatoid arthritis; paralysis; and hiatus hernia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 66 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: severe head injury; fractured skull; subdural haematoma; unconsciousness; hemiparesis; incontinence; and ischaemia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.