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Copy of paper by Norman Dott, 'Post-traumatic carotid-cavernous arteriovenous fistula', published in the Transansactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, 53, 1939 see reference Harris 45) in Coll-32/A.3.

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Medical illustrations and demonstration boards showing conditions, injuries and procedures related to the field of neurosurgery used by Professor Norman Dott during his time with the Department of Surgical Neurology at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and latterly at the Western General Hospital.

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The history of surgical neurology in the 20th century'. This paper was given at Royal Society of Medicine Section History of Medicine, Meeting, March 1971. The material consists of 'Reading version' of the lecture with list and captions of slides.

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Reflections on the history of surgical neurology'. The paper was given at the Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Society for the History of Medicine, Ocotber 1966. The material consists of a typescript of the paper as delivered.

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...

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...