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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Some points in the nursing of surgical cerebral cases'. The material is undated.

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'Surgical aspects of brain disease'. Lecture delivered by Norman Dott to the Ayr branch of the British Medical Assocation, dated December 1928, using material from Coll-32/D.6 with a new introduction.

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Lecture 'Surgical aspects of brain disease' given by Norman Dott to Lanarkshire Division B.M.A. [British Medical Association], dated January 1929, containing the same material as Coll-32/D.6-D.7 but with a new introduction and revision of material.

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Lecture, 'Technical advances in the radical treatment of intracranial tumours' delivered by Norman Dott to the Chirurgical Club, Edinburgh, dated September 1930. Contains letter to Professor David Wilkie, outlining points for the lecture.

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'The surgery of intra-craniaI diseases'. The material consists of an extended account of the lectures given in Coll-32/D.6-D.8, with more and fuller casenotes, of the subject and Dott's methods, 34 pp. undated but kept with group of manuscripts on the subject.