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 13 Collections and/or Records:
3 lectures on head injuries, 1963
3 lectures by Norman Dott on head injuries. The material consists of an extensive survey with 90 slides dated 1963, adapted and expanded from Postgraduate Lectures at University of Edinburgh on the same subject. Lecture II includes manuscript notes of a discussion in Singapore. Lecture III (Operative Surgery) is entirely manuscript. See Coll-32/D.195 for a list of the slides.
Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine. Lecture on head injury, November 1958
Foreword to Acute Injuries of the Head, 1942
Foreword by Norman Dott to Acute Injuries of the Head by George Frederick Rowbotham (E. &, S. Livingstone, 1942) and brief correspondence between Dott and the publisher. See reference Harris 50 in Coll-32/A.3.
'Head Injuries', 1963
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Head Injuries', dated 1963. The material is an expanded and updated version of the paper in Coll-32/D.83).
Lecture on head injuries labelled, '1963 adapted for U.S.A.', 1963
Lecture on head injuries by Norman Dott, heavily revised and labelled, '1963 adapted for U.S.A.'.
Lists of slides to accompany lectures, 1963
Lists of slides to accompany 3 lectures by Norman Dott on head injuries, see Coll-32/D.194.
Manuscript notes and introductions for lectures on head injuries , April 1964-January 1965
Manuscript notes and introductions for lectures on head injuries by Norman Dott. The lectures were given in Amsterdam, April 1964, Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 1964, and Prasat, Thailand, January 1965.
'The common features in brain displacements by tumours, by haemorrhage and by violence', May 1955
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The common features in brain displacements by tumours, by haemorrhage and by violence'. This paper is The Hughlings Jackson Lecture, 1955 and was given at the meeting of the Montreal Neurological Society, dated May 1955. The material consists of a corrected manuscript and list of slides for the lecture as delivered.
'The living pathology of head injuries and their management', c 1961
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The living pathology of head injuries and their management'. The material is undated but is from approximately 1961.
'The Management of head injuries', 1946
Paper by Norman Dott, 'The Management of head injuries'. This is an early collaborative paper, dated 1946, but it was kept with Coll-32/D.79-D.84 from 1952-1963.
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- Subject: Craniocerebral Trauma X
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- Neurosurgery 2
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- Hemorrhage 1
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