Surgery

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Volume containing notes from the lectures of Mr Robert Liston by Hugh McBean, Edinburgh, 1830-1832.

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These ms notes of the lectures on Anatomy and Surgery given by Henry Cline (1750-1827) and Astley Cooper (1768-1841) were taken down by Robert Bickersteth. Cline was a surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and Cooper was a surgeon in London too.

The notes are in ink, sometimes on both recto and verso of the leaf, but usually on the rectos only. There are occasional drawings.

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Observations on Electro-Surgery'. The material is undated.

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Pencil drawings by Norman Dott, to illustrate operative techniques

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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.

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...

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'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.

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...