University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Lecture by Normann Dott, 'Acute spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage'. The paper was given to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of South Africa, Cape Town, dated September 1957. The material consists of the text of the lecture (pp. 1-4 only - see coll-32/D.112 for amended version), and brief correspondence regarding its publication.

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Acute spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage. The material begins with p.5 of Coll-32/D.111 and continues with manuscript additions, list of cases and treatments, etc. It contains a manuscript note which dates it '1957 amended 1962'.

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Aneurysmal Affections of the Cerebral Arteries'. The paper was delivered to Glasgow women students at the Queen Margaret Medical Club, dated November 1946. The material consists of 2 copies of the lecture, each with different manuscript notes.

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Copy of letter from Norman Dott to Doctor Robert W. Saxton, dated 1964. The letter discusses Dott's operative treatment of aneurysms.

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues. The correspondence is regarding a Peruvian patient with an intracranial aneurysm and espescially regarding surgical treatment of such cases, 1953-1954. The corrspondents are Jorge Voto Bernales and William Beecher Scoville.

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Norman Dott and other medical professionals and related documents. The material consists of a letter from Norman Dott to John Graham regarding Robert Louis Stevenson's death from an intracranial aneurysm, dated 1953; letter from Norman Dott to John Marshall, enclosing manuscript of lecture 'which I have not had time to publish, hoping it may be of use', dated 1954; letter from Bertram Selverstone to Norman Dott regarding Dott's carotid occlusion clamp, dated 1955;...

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and the Library of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1933. The correspondence relates to bibliographies on epithelial tumours and intracranial aneurysms.

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Intracranial aneurysmal formations. The paper was delivered at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Toronto, September 1968. The material consists of text of the lecture with lists of slides and captions for illustrations.

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Intracranial aneurysmal formations'. The paper was given at Lisbon, dated April 1947. The material consits of 2 versions of the paper; and a letter to Broni Sedzimir describing the work, undated.

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Introduction to address on 'Acute spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage', given by Norman Dott and F.J. Gillingham to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, dated May 1962.