Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon)
Dates
- Existence: 1897 - 1973
Biography
Dott was born in Edinburgh in 1897, and educated at George Heriot's School there. Originally apprenticed as a joiner and engineer, he suffered a serious hip injury in an accident, and the observation of medical practice during his hospitalisation determined his future career and he entered Edinburgh University Medical School in 1914. Awarded the Syme Surgical Fellowship in 1921, he worked with Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer, and his studies on the pituitary led to the award of a Rockefeller Fellowship which enabled him to work as Assistant Resident to Harvey Cushing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1923-1924. With the exception of this year and a brief visit to Cushing in 1929, Dott remained in Edinburgh throughout his career. He did much to establish surgical neurology there and in 1947 became the first Professor of Surgical Neurology at the University. He was a founder member of the Society of British Neurologists in 1926, and its President, 1938-1945. During the Second Worl! d War he served with H.W.B. Cairns, Geoffrey Jefferson and others on the Brain Injuries Committee of the Medical Research Council. He lectured widely on his specialist subjects such as aneurysms, pain, pituitary and also on medical education, hospital planning and staffing, the history of medicine (mainly in relation to his own interests), and more informally on his own experiences and colleagues.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Another version of 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain...', marked 'Final Version', October 1964, 1966
'Final version Oct. 1964' , and copy of published paper, see reference Harris 80 in Coll-32/A.3.
Another version of 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases', 1963
Lecture by Norman Dott in collaboration with J.J. Maccabe, 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases'. Another version of Coll-32/D.199 with manucript revisions and deletions, with note 'USA 1963, H.C. Soc. [society] Philadelphia and Columbia Med. Sch. [Medical School]'
Another version of 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases', 1963
Lecture by Norman Dott in collaboration with J.J. Maccabe, 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases'. The material is another version of Coll-32/D.199, with with a note 'U.S,A. 1963 - not used'.
Another version of 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases', 1963
Lecture by Norman Dott in collaboration with J.J. Maccabe, 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases'. The material is another version of Coll-32/D.199, marked 'Lyon version' containing manucript notes by Dott and J.J MaAaccabe.
'Selective profound cerebral hypothermia as an adjunct to brain surgery - cerebral arterio-venous malformations', c 1961-1962
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Selective profound cerebral hypothermia as an adjunct to brain surgery - cerebral arterio-venous malformations'. The material consists of a manuscript of the lecture, with a list of slides and note to F.J. Gillingham regarding Coll-32/D.152. The material is undated but is probably c 1961-62, since Coll-32/D.152 is dated May 1961.
'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 103 cases', October 1962
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 103 cases'. The paper was delivered to the Eighth Congress of the Hungarian Association of Neurologists and Psychiatrists, Budapest, dated October 1962. The material consists of a typescript of the text and summary of the paper with many manuscript revisions.
'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases', June 1963
Lecture by Norman Dott in collaboration with J.J. Maccabe, 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases'. The paper is marked with note 'version used at Lyon, June 1963'.
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