Surgery

Scope and Contents This volume of notes is based on Monro's surgical lectures at Edinburgh Medical School, 1774-1775. The manuscript lectures are sub-headed Lectures 1-13 and are in two distinct hands - the first two lectures in one, and the rest in another. The paper is watermarked with a crown and the initials GR, undated, but this L.V.Gerrevink paper commonly used throughout much of the 18th century. Both hands are clear and legible, with just a few corrections, and occasional additions written on the verso...

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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.