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 10 Collections and/or Records:
'A contribution to the surgery of hydrocephalus in childhood', July 1950
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'A contribution to the surgery of hydrocephalus in childhood'. The material consists of a paper given at the Sixth International Congress of Pediatrics, Zurich, dated July 1950 and published in Congress Proceedings (see reference Harris 53 in Coll-32/A.3); a typescript of the paper; and printed clippings of other papers on the same subject.
British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS), 1956-1974
Material relating to the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS), 1956-74 (Dott was and Honorary Member from 1955). The material consists of mainly printed items relating to meetings, congresses and affairs of BAPS, conference programmes, lists of members, etc. Some brief correspondence is included, and also manuscripts of Dott's introductory remarks to the Macarthur Lecture given by Doctor E. Sandegard at the BAPS meeting in Edinburgh, dated June 1957.
Copies of 'Chronic arachnoiditis and hydrocephalus in the surgical management of acoustic tumours...', 1958
Copies of a paper by Norman Dott, 'Chronic arachnoiditis and hydrocephalus in the surgical management of acoustic tumours - a plea for early operation'. The paper is as delivered, as corrected as submitted for publication. See reference Harris 63 in Coll-32/A.3.
'Examples of two common surgical cerebellar affections of childhood', 28 November 1930
Lecture 'Examples of two common surgical cerebellar affections of childhood', by Norman Dott with manuscript note 'shown to Pediatric [Paediatric] club', dated 28 November 1930.
'Infantile hydrocephalus - some physiological, pathological and therapeutic observations', June 1956
Lecture by Norman Dott and F.J. Gillingham, 'Infantile hydrocephalus - some physiological, pathological and therapeutic observations'. The paper was given at Glasgow, dated June 1956.
'The clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children', January 1952
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children'. The paper was delivered to the to Faculty of Radiologists (Radiotherapy Section), Royal College of Surgeons, London, dated January 1952. The material consists of a programme of the meeting; text and summary of Dott's lecture; text and summary of lecture by F.J. Gillingham following on from Dott's; and brief correspondnece regarding the lecture and its publication.
'The clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children', February 1952
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children'. The paper was delivered to Leicester Medical Society, dated February 1952.
'The surgery of the posterior cranial fossa in childhood and adolescence', December 1931
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The surgery of the posterior cranial fossa in childhood and adolescence'. The paper was delivered to Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society, dated December 1931.
Untitled lecture regarding clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children, undated
Untitled lecture regarding clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children. The material contains reviews of over 1,000 cases (including 140 children) of intracranial tumour treated at Edinburgh. The material is undated but was kept with Coll-32/D.75-D.76, D.78 from c 1946-1952.
Untitled lecture relating to pituitary lesions in childhood, May 1933
Untitled lecture by Norman Dott relating to pituitary lesions in childhood. The paper was delivered to a Medico-Chirurgical Society Clinical meeting, dated May 1933.
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