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 14 Collections and/or Records:
2 copies of 'Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation', February 1963
2 copies of lecture by Norman Dott, 'Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation', dated February 1963. The material consists of 2 copies of the talk with varying manuscript corrections. This uses some of the material to be found in reference in Harris 72 (see Coll-32/A.3 and D.181), expanded and revised to include a discussion of the new cases.
'An Investigation into the Functions of the Pituitary and Thyroid Glands with special reference to...', 1922
'An Investigation into the Functions of the Pituitary and Thyroid Glands with special reference to the technique of their Experimental Surgery'. The material consists of Norman Dott's thesis for the Syme Surgical Fellowship, based on part of Coll-32/G.1 above and published with slight change of title, dated 1922, see reference Harris 3 in Coll-32/A.3; and a heavily revised and corrected manuscript.
Correspondence and drafts for talks and demonstrations, May 1962-August 1962
Correspondence and drafts for talks and demonstrations by Norman Dott, dated May 1962-August 1962. The material is regarding 'Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation'.
Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1963-1964
Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, dated 1963-1964. The material is regarding photographs and slides of cases, and publication of results in relation to Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation. The correspondents include A.P.M. Forrest
Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues and papers on transphenoidal operation for pituitary tumours, 1957-1954
'Discussion on diseases of the pituitary body', October 1929
English
Extended 'Report to the Medical Research Council of work done during 1922 (Jan. [January] to August )', 1922
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 drafts of sections or chapters entitled 'Symptomatology' and 'Treatment' and 9 pencil drawings of patients, c 1933
Manuscript pencil drafts by Norman Dott of sections or chapters entitled 'Symptomatology' and 'Treatment' and 9 pencil drawings of patients, c 1933. All of the drawings are named and described by Dott.
'Modern surgery of the pituitary region', November 1931
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Modern surgery of the pituitary region'. The paper was delivered to the Forfarshire Medical Association, Dundee, dated November 1931.
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- Subject: Pituitary Diseases X
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- Ophthalmology 2
- Neurosurgery 1
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- Pituitary neoplasms 1