Nonsurgical treatment

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; and sciatica. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; sciatica; vomiting; and infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, postmortem report and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculosis of spine; brain tuberculoma; tubercular meningitis; headache; vomiting; constipation; retention of urine; paraplegia; papilloedema; intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; and nystagmus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: fractured dislocation of spine; head injury; unconsciousness; amnesia; hypoaesthesia; spasticity; psychosis; and retention of urine. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: radiculitis; spondylitis ankylopoetica; prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; and sciatica; and hypaesthesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and report relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 7 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: spinal fibroma; pain; and gait disorder. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma; headaches; epilepsy; seizures; tinnitus; hypersalivation; amnesia; oedema; vomiting; vision disorder; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, reports and x-rays relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: spinal neurilemmoma; prolapsed intervertebral disc; sciatica; low back pain; and infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and report relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: multiple lesions on brainstem and left hemisphere; paraesthesia; speech disorder; and hypertension. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: pituitary chromophobe adenoma; vision disorder; and hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.