Surgical Procedures, Operative

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, autopsy report, charts and reports relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 36 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: lumbar backache; retention of urine; dyspnoeic; polychromasia; anaemia; ganglioneuroblastoma; and colitis. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, autopsy report, charts and reports relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: subarachnoid haemorrhage; congenital aneurysm; and haematoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, charts and reports relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 18 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: papilloedema; intracranial pressure; amblyopic; and tuberculosis meningitis. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, charts and reports relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: protrusion of a lumbar intervertebral disc. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: sciatica; prolapsed intervertebral disc; paraesthesiae; and headache. Nonsurgical treatment and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, reports and x-ray films relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: blindness; bi-lateral papillitis; and optic neuritis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: sciatica; and lumbar disc protrusion. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, reports and notes relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: sciatica; retention of urine; and disc protrusion. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, charts, correspondence, notes and black-and-white photographs relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: ear infection; ventriculitis; meningitis; encephalitis; gliosis; brain-stem damage; osteomyelitis; and haemorrhages. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: haematoma; hemiplegia; brain-stem damage; and severe closed head injury. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.