University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: haemorrhage; facial pain; and epithelioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, report, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; headache; subarachnoid haemorrhage. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary, charts, notes, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 56 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; diplopia; proptosis; headache; vomiting; haemorrhage; and subdural haematoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

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Typed case summary, chart, autopsy report, photogrpahs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 78 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; trigeminal neuralgia; hypertension; arteriosclerosis; and haemorrhage. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed case summary relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 59 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: right facial pain; arterial hypertension; loss of vision; haemorrhage; scotoma; antral pathology; polyps; and trigeminal neuralgia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, note, charts and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; ear carcinoma; mid-brain damage; pain; and extradural haemorrhage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Scope and Contents This file contains material relating to Norman Dott's visit to Portugal. Dott visited Lisbon, Oporto and Coimbra in Novemeber 1958, lecturing on 'Facial pain' and 'Spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage'. The material consists of a programme of the visit and brief correspondence with the British Council regarding travel arrangements. It includes various notes, professional and social, on four, and a letter written on Dott's return giving impressions, contacts and advice to R.S. Handley...