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Pituitary Diseases

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

2 copies of 'Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation', February 1963

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.179
Scope and Contents

2 copies of lecture by Norman Dott, 'Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation', dated February 1963. The material consists of 2 copies of the talk with varying manuscript corrections. This uses some of the material to be found in reference in Harris 72 (see Coll-32/A.3 and D.181), expanded and revised to include a discussion of the new cases.

Dates: February 1963

20.1 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, February 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/19
Scope and Contents

'Pituitary disorder, massive for her age, dull, asthmatic, adipose, genitalia undeveloped. Father a shepherd. Mother OK, "a wailey kind o' creature, a wee bit below normal" - Inspector.'

Dates: Other: February 1947

'An Investigation into the Functions of the Pituitary and Thyroid Glands with special reference to...', 1922

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Identifier: Coll-32/G.2
Scope and Contents

'An Investigation into the Functions of the Pituitary and Thyroid Glands with special reference to the technique of their Experimental Surgery'. The material consists of Norman Dott's thesis for the Syme Surgical Fellowship, based on part of Coll-32/G.1 above and published with slight change of title, dated 1922, see reference Harris 3 in Coll-32/A.3; and a heavily revised and corrected manuscript.

Dates: 1922

Correspondence and drafts for talks and demonstrations, May 1962-August 1962

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.177
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and drafts for talks and demonstrations by Norman Dott, dated May 1962-August 1962. The material is regarding 'Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation'.

Dates: May 1962-August 1962

Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1963-1964

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.178
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, dated 1963-1964. The material is regarding photographs and slides of cases, and publication of results in relation to Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation. The correspondents include A.P.M. Forrest

Dates: 1963-1964

Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues and papers on transphenoidal operation for pituitary tumours, 1957-1954

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Identifier: Coll-32/H.14
Scope and Contents Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues and papers on transphenoidal operation for pituitary tumours. The material consists of correspondence between Dott and Gilbert Horrax, 1957, correspondence between Dott and H.J. Svien, giving Dott's views and results of treatment, 1964. It includes manuscripts of lectures given by Dott on 'Surgical Diseases of the Pituitary Region' at Pretoria 1957, Aberdeen 1958, Smethwick 1959, and a paper by François L. Deborsu (one of Dott's students)...
Dates: 1957-1954

Extended 'Report to the Medical Research Council of work done during 1922 (Jan. [January] to August )', 1922

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Identifier: Coll-32/G.1
Scope and Contents Extended 'Report to the Medical Research Council of work done during 1922 (Jan. [January] to August )' by Norman Dott and John Fraser, from the Department of Physiology, University of Edinburgh under Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer. The material consists of 7 envelopes, all bearing Dott's list of contents, manuscripts and typescript drafts. Note, 'Part II Section I, An Investigation of the lnfluence of the Pituitary Body on the Developing Skeleton', had been removed from its envelope for separate...
Dates: 1922

List of 'Pituitary Slides', c 1964

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.121
Scope and Contents

The material consists of a list of 'Pituitary Slides' kept in the same folder as Coll-32/D.120 by Norman Dott.

Dates: c 1964

Manuscript drafts of sections or chapters entitled 'Symptomatology' and 'Treatment' and 9 pencil drawings of patients, c 1933

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Identifier: Coll-32/G.5
Scope and Contents

Manuscript pencil drafts by Norman Dott of sections or chapters entitled 'Symptomatology' and 'Treatment' and 9 pencil drawings of patients, c 1933. All of the drawings are named and described by Dott.

Dates: c 1933