Brain Abscess

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, reports, photographs, offprint and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 8 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: seizures; head injury; skull fracture; cerebral abscess; papilloedema; hemiparesis; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; nystagmus; seizures; papilloedema; temporal abscess; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, reports and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 8 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: sore throat; vomiting; meningitis; and temporal lobe abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report and photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: somnolence; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; carcinoma; and brain abscess. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess; headache; fits; vomiting; intracranial pressure; and otitis media. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; and cerebral abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, reports, autopsy report and photograph relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 26 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; vomiting; headache; facial paresis; deafness; and cerebellar abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several admissions.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts, black and white photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: catarrhal discharge; vomiting; headaches; tuberculous meningitis; oedema; frontal sinusitis; thrombophlebitis; osteomyelitis; pericranial and extradural abscesses; and cerebral abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, notes, correspondence and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; sick feeling; sound in right ear; giddiness; drowsy; intracranial tension; and cerebral abscess. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; otorrhoea; facial paralysis; intracranial pressure; and cerebellar abscess. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.