Blindness

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 38 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: euphoria; polydipsia; pituitary tumour; retrobulbar chiasmal neuritis; arsenic poisoning; blindness; and basal encephalitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, notes, charts and black and white photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians)aged 3 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headaches; sickness; staggering; squint; giddy; blind; glioma; glioblastoma; and brain stem tumour. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 3 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: oedematous swelling; blind; and retrobulbar neuritis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland)aged 31 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: numbness; horizontal nystagmus; hypertonus; paraesthesiae; ataxia; blindness; facial weakness; and disseminated sclerosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary relating to male private from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1940 Conditions mentioned include: head injury; blindness in left eye; headaches; dizziness; left hemiparesis; and limp. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male private from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: protrusion of the eye; facial hyperostosis; and blindness in left eye. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male liaison officer fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: skull and brain injury; skull fracture; blindness in right eye; headache; and numbness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, photographs, correspondence, charts and negatives relating to male signalman fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound; headache; blindness; compound skull fracture; neuritis; facial weakness; and neurotic reaction. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female private fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: eye pain; blindness in one eye; headache; slight nystagmus; nervous system disease; anosmia; cerebral tumor; neurofibromata. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, reports and notes relating to male cabin boy fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland)aged 20 at first examination in 1941 Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wounds to head; compound skull fracture; acute meningitis; loss of vision; ear pain; headache; nystagmus; and seizures. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.