Abscess

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 60 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; difficulty writing; weakness of hands and limbs; spastic gait; headaches; abscesses; gross motor dysfunction; and encephalitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Case summary and forms relating to male Private, R.S. Fusiliers from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 19 at examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: swelling of right chest wall - cold abscess of rib,...

Scope and Contents Case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male motor driver from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 39 at examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: cough with sputum, tuberculosis I-IIIB, hip and groin...

Scope and Contents Case summary relating to female patient from south west Edinburgh aged 43 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: ischio-rectal abscess. Family history of tuberculosis. No treatment given.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: thrombophlebitis; osteomyelitis; headache; neck pain; abscess; and proptosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 20 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: skull fracture; abscess; squint; headache; and nausea. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Case summary relating to male apprentice plumber from east Edinburgh aged 17 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: cough with occasional sputum, rectal abscess. Family history of tuberculosis. No treatment given.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary and report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; tuberculous pre-vertebral abscess; reticulum cell sarcoma; and Hodgkin's Disease. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 28 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: backache; numbness; diabetes; infection; abscesses; and pyogenic interstitial neuritis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Case summary relating to female housewife usherette from west Edinburgh aged 32 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: cough with sputum, tuberculosis I-IIB, abscess of mouth. No family history of tuberculosis....