Brain Abscess

Scope and Contents Notes, correspondence, charts and reports relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: pneumococcal meningitis; ?intracranial abscess; headaches; and cough. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians). Conditions mentioned include: brain abscess; headache; and osteomyelitis of skull. No treatment given. Patient not examined by Dott.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: bilateral cerebral abscess; dysphasia; right-sided hemiparesis; and progressive drowsiness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, autopsy report, reports, notes and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 66 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: chronic basal meningitis; thrombophlebitis; frontal headache; and left cerebellar abscess. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: right fronto-parietal cerebral abscess; head injury; left hemiparesis; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, autopsy report, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: right cerebral abscess; slurring of speech; confusion; and left hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents Notes, charts, reports, typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 10 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: abscess (right temporal); right-sided otitis media; meningitis; and vomiting. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.