Brain Abscess

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, handwritten notes, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 13 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: mastoiditis; cerebellar abcess; seizures; and epilepsy. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, notes and report relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; and mental slowness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, report, autopsy reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: headache; and frontal abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 8 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fits; unconsciousness; and supra-orbital abscesses. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 16 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; cerebellar abscess; headache; vomiting; and hallucinations. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correpondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 54 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: deafness; dizziness; ear pain; vomiting; ataxia; and intracerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: facial tic; intracranial abscess; headache; and thrombophlebitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, reports, charts, autopay report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 4 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: fits; intracranial pressure; posterior fossa abscess; hydrocephalus; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: headache; convulsions; and temporal lobe abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: headache; cerebral abscess; fatigue; septic encephalitis; and dysphasia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.