Surgery

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.

Scope and Contents Manuscript volume of pp.492, in neat hand on narrow folio paper with numerous additional blanks. Item is bound in contemporary half calf, gilt bands, lettered in gilt. The volume begins with a detailed 'Table 1st' and 'Table 2nd'. The 'Table 1st' details the age, occupation, symptoms, and state of the different physical functions (vital, natural, animal, and sexual). The 'Table 2nd' details the necessary information for the taking of daily reports, the effects of medicines, the...

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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.

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A print out of a lecture, given by B.P. Allison, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P, given under the auspices of the Health Education and Research Council, London, under the title "Unnecessary Operations".

The lecture investigates alternatives to invasive surgery, particularly focussing on the diseases of the ear, nose and throat.