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 5 Collections and/or Records:
'Congenital dislocation of the hip', 19 August 1931
'Congenital dislocation of the hip' The material consits of 2 versions of a lecture by Norman Dott with different annotations; and notes on patients used as illustrations, dated 19 AUgust 1931.
'Congenital dislocation of the hip', November 1933
'Congenital dislocation of the hip'. Lecture delivered by Norman Dott at the British Orthopaedic Associetion, Edinburgh, dated November 1933.
'Congenital Hip. Surg. [Surgical] Travellers', c 1931
'Congenital Hip. Surg. [Surgical] Travellers'. The material consists of shorter mansucript notes of lecture Coll-32/C.23 by Norman Dott, presumably given to Surgical Travellers Club, undated but the other lecture was from 1931.
'The practical significance of the developmental factor in certain deformities of childhood - with special reference to congenital dislocation of the hip', December 1928
'The practical significance of the developmental factor in certain deformities of childhood - with special reference to congenital dislocation of the hip'. Lecture delivered by Norman Dott to the Fife Branch of the British Medical Association, dated December 1928.
'The treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip', October 1931
'The treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip'.Lecture delivered by Norman Dott to the College of Nursing Edinburgh branch, dated October 1931.
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