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"This boy couldn't speak at school,looked hydrocephalic. Can read but is very very backward. Hopeless at putting things down on paper, writing very poor. Nice boy, no trouble. Parents probably cousins. Illegitimate. Family has a reputation for being immoral. Nurse says this child was 7 or 8 before he could talk but is now coming on. Housing clean, not overcrowded, inharmonious."

Relatives in survey: mother 17.24, siblings 17.25, 17.18

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'A contribution to the surgery of hydrocephalus in childhood'. The material consists of a paper given at the Sixth International Congress of Pediatrics, Zurich, dated July 1950 and published in Congress Proceedings (see reference Harris 53 in Coll-32/A.3); a typescript of the paper; and printed clippings of other papers on the same subject.

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Lecture by Norman Dott, An Introductory Review'. The paper was given as the presidential address to the meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus, June 1961. The material consists of a typescript of the address as delivered; and the printed version in Developments in Medical Child Neurology 4. See reference Harris 70 in Coll-32/A.3.

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Coronal view of a brain with hydrocephalus. Based on dilation of both lateral ventricles and the third ventricle, the obstruction must be at the level of the cerebral aqueduct or lower. Secondary pituitary compression is depicted. Annotated on back, 'Hydrocephalic distinction of [unreadable] pituitary compression.'

Scope and Contents Three drawings showing an operative approach to cicatricial obstruction at Foramen of Monro, a diagram of a brain section and a drawing showing the x-ray appearance of the condition. On reverse, text reads "DOTT & LEVIN: CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS. CHRONIC PLASTIC EPENDYMITIS. Cicatrical Obstruction at Foramen of Monro. Secondary to meningococcal ependymitis." A description of each drawing, labelled 1 to 3, is then given; 1. Insert shows operative approach. The appearance of...

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Copies of a paper by Norman Dott, 'Chronic arachnoiditis and hydrocephalus in the surgical management of acoustic tumours - a plea for early operation'. The paper is as delivered, as corrected as submitted for publication. See reference Harris 63 in Coll-32/A.3.

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Demonstration board, Board 6, presented by Professor Dott and Staff with an x-ray of a patient's head. Notes accompanying the board describe the condition. Titled "C.S.F. Circulation: Subarachnoid Fluid Propulsion and Accumulations".

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Demonstration board, Board 1, presented by Professor Dott and Staff with a diagram by Hester Thom labelling the "optic chiasm", "foramina of luschka" and "foramen of magendie" and showing "villi obstructed." Notes accompanying the board give further points of interest. Titled "C.S.F. Circulation: Subarachnoid Fluid Propulsion and Accumulations".

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Set of notes that should accompany a demonstration board relating to midbrain vascular lesions.

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Lecture 'Hydrocephalus simulating tumour in the production of chiasmal and other parahypophysial lesions' by Arthur Henry Havens Sinclair and Norman Dott. The paper was delivered at the Congress Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, dated April 1931 and is a similar (not identical) paper to Coll-32/D.21. The paper was later published in Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society, vol. 51, 1931, see reference Harris 27 in Coll-32/A.3.