Surgery
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Procedure drawings [2], 1936
Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/1/40
Scope and Contents
Series of three illustrations demonstrating a procedure to remove tissue from the spine. Accompanied by three photographs of an occurence of the procedure: one of the back of the patient and two of the tissue removed.
Dates:
1936
Procedure drawings [6], c.1940
Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/1/44
Scope and Contents
Series of five illustrations demonstrating a procedure on the brain depicting the steps involved in accessing and ligating an intracranial aneurysm in the anterior circle of Willis. 1) outline of the planned frontotemporal craniotomy is depicted, 2) pia matter pulled back to reveal the surface of the brain, surgical retractors inserted, 3) pressure applied on the retractors to reveal the anterior circle of Willis, 4) ligation of the blood vessel supplying the aneurism (outline of aneurism...
Dates:
c.1940
'Recent experiences of Intracranial Surgery', May 1928
File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.6
Scope and Contents
'Recent experiences of lntracranial Surgery'. Lecture delvered by Norman Dott at the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society meeting, dated May 1928. The material consists of a heavily corrected manuscript with case notes and examples, used as a basis for other lectures on the subject.
Dates:
May 1928
RIE Professor Norman Dott Case Notes, 1922-1970
Series
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20
Scope and Contents
Comprising 77 boxes of loose case notes, these records cover the early surgical career of Norman Dott, starting in the mid-1920s. At this time (1924-1931), Dott was in private practice and was given operating space by local nursing homes. From 1931, Dott worked from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE), in which he was granted four post-operative beds across Wards 13 and 14 by the Chair of Systematic Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, Sir David Wilkie. After the Department of Surgical...
Dates:
1922-1970
RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20, Filed by Disease, 1922-1976
Series
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22
Scope and Contents
This series covers case notes from various stages in Dott's career that have been filed by the condition of the patient. The series includes patients from Dott's time operating in private nursing homes before 1931 and from his subsequent work at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) before and after the establishment on the National Health Service (1948). These case notes are housed in 34 boxes. Original case folders housed both single and multiple cases, the arrangement of...
Dates:
1922-1976
RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1), 1925-1976
Series
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24 (1-6000)
Scope and Contents
Although some earlier case records contain only handwritten notes, most cases in this series are represented in typed case summaries with a fairly uniform structure. These case summaries are considerably more succinct than the summaries written during Dott's early years as a neurosurgeon in private practice (LHB1/20). Consequently, the records of more than one patient were originally housed in a single folder, an order which has been retained in the preservation and rehousing of the case...
Dates:
1925-1976
RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2), 1925-1976
Series
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24 (6001-12000)
Scope and Contents
Although some earlier case records contain only handwritten notes, most cases in this series are represented in typed case summaries with a fairly uniform structure. These case summaries are considerably more succinct than the summaries written during Dott's early years as a neurosurgeon in private practice (LHB1/20). Consequently, the records of more than one patient were originally housed in a single folder, an order which has been retained in the preservation and rehousing of the case...
Dates:
1925-1976
RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 3), 1925-1976
Series
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24 (12001-18000)
Scope and Contents
Although some earlier case records contain only handwritten notes, most cases in this series are represented in typed case summaries with a fairly uniform structure. These case summaries are considerably more succinct than the summaries written during Dott's early years as a neurosurgeon in private practice (LHB1/20). Consequently, the records of more than one patient were originally housed in a single folder, an order which has been retained in the preservation and rehousing of the case...
Dates:
1925-1976
RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4), 1925-1976
Series
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24 (18001-21371)
Scope and Contents
Although some earlier case records contain only handwritten notes, most cases in this series are represented in typed case summaries with a fairly uniform structure. These case summaries are considerably more succinct than the summaries written during Dott's early years as a neurosurgeon in private practice (LHB1/20). Consequently, the records of more than one patient were originally housed in a single folder, an order which has been retained in the preservation and rehousing of the case...
Dates:
1925-1976
'Some points in the nursing of surgical cerebral cases', undated
File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.15
Scope and Contents
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Some points in the nursing of surgical cerebral cases'. The material is undated.
Dates:
undated