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 4 Collections and/or Records:
Department of Surgical Neurology Papers, 1908-1972
Correspondence; minutes; reports; photographs; patient case notes; lecture notes and teaching materials; journals; offprints; plans; diaries; illustrations; books.
Professor Norman Dott: Medical Illustrations and Demonstration Boards, 1925-1968
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.
'Surgical Neurology, February 1960
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Surgical Neurology'. This paper was given as The Holme Lecture, delivered at University College Hospital Medical School, London, dated February 1960. The material consists of a typescript of the lecture as delivered, with many manuscript revisions (uses some material from Coll-32/D.127); and brief correspondence regarding arrangements for the lecture.
Untitled address to Aberdeen University Anatomical and Anthropological Society, November 1959
Untitled address by Norman Dott to Aberdeen University Anatomical and Anthropological Society, dated November 1959. The material is regarding the history of surgical neurology and other disciplines and consists of a typescript of the lecture which has been very extensively revised, when compared with Coll-32/D.139
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