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 16 Collections and/or Records:
'A contribution to the differential diagnosis of chiasmal lesions', 1931
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'A contribution to the differential diagnosis of chiasmal lesions' delivered at the International Neurological Congress, Berne, Switzerland, dated 1931.
'Case Summaries, surgery optic Ns [Neurosurgery]', February 1964
Manuscript notes by Norman Dott, 'Case Summaries, surgery optic Ns [Neurosurgery]', dated Febrary 1964.
Correspondence between Dott and editors of the Transactions of Ophthalmological Societies of the UK, c 1964
Correspondence between Dott and editors of the Transactions of Ophthalmological Societies of the UK, c 1964. The correspondence relates to publication of lectures which Dott gave in 1964. He was asked to cut down the text to 12 illustrations, which he felt reduced its value.
'Hydrocephalus simulating tumour in the production of chiasmal and other parahypophysial lesions', April 1931
Lecture 'Hydrocephalus simulating tumour in the production of chiasmal and other parahypophysial lesions' by Arthur Henry Havens Sinclair and Norman Dott. The paper was delivered at the Congress Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, dated April 1931 and is a similar (not identical) paper to Coll-32/D.21. The paper was later published in Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society, vol. 51, 1931, see reference Harris 27 in Coll-32/A.3.
'Hydrocephalus simulating tumour in the production of chiasmal and other parahypophysial lesions', February 1931
Lecture 'Hydrocephalus simulating tumour in the production of chiasmal and other parahypophysial lesions' by Arthur Henry Havens Sinclair and Norman Dott. The paper was given to the North of England Ophthalmological Society, dated February 1931 and is a similar (not identical) paper to Coll-32/D.20. The paper was later published in Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society, vol. 51, 1931, see reference Harris 27 in Coll-32/A.3.
List of 'Pituitary Slides', c 1964
The material consists of a list of 'Pituitary Slides' kept in the same folder as Coll-32/D.120 by Norman Dott.
Manuscript introduction to 'The surgery of the optic nerves', given in the Netherlands, May 1964
Manuscript introduction to lecture by Norman Dott, 'The surgery of the optic nerves', given in Netherlands, May 1964.
'Modern surgery of the chiasmal neighbourhood', November 1931
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Modern surgery of the chiasmal neighbourhood'. The paper was delivered to the Department of Surgery, University of Edinburgh, dated November 1931.
Other versions of lecture, 'The surgery of the optic nerves', given in India and Thailand, c 1965
Other versions of lecture by Norman Dott, 'The surgery of the optic nerves', given in India and Thailand, c 1965. Dott visited India and Thailand in 1965, therefore they were presumably given during this visit.
Paper given at B.M.A. [British Medical Association] Annual meeting, Section of Ophthalmology, Newcastle, July 1957
Paper given by Norman Dott at B.M.A. [British Medical Association] Annual meeting, Section of Ophthalmology, Newcastle, dated July 1957.
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- Neurosurgery 7
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- Brain Neoplasms 2
- Pituitary Diseases 2
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