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:
Correspondence between Norman Dott and officers of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1951
Correspondence between Norman Dott and officers of Royal Society of Medicine, dated 1951. The material relates to the delivery of Dott's paper and projected publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Dott was asked to abridge his paper for publication however he refused to do so. The correspondants are John Angell-James and A.M. Zamora.
Correspondence between Norman Dott and Sir Charles Symonds, 1951-1952
Correspondence between Norman Dott and Sir Charles Symonds. The material relates to Dott's paper on 'Facial Pain' and Symonds work on the same subject, dated 1951-1952. The material includes an offprint.
Correspondence between Norman Dott, John B. Gaylor and Terence Cawthorne, 1951
Correspondence between Norman Dott, John B Gaylor and Terence Cawthorne. The correspondence relates to their material in contribution to a meeting on Facial Pain, dated 1951.
Correspondence between Norman Dott, John McLeod, Robin Lowe and W.R. Thrower, 1952, 1955
Correspondence between Norman Dott, John McLeod, Robin Lowe and W.R. Thrower. The material consists of brief correspondence relating to Dott's paper on 'Facial Pain' and relief from pain. The correspondence with John McLeod and Robin Lowe is dated 1952 and with W.R. Thrower is dated 1955. It includes an offprint of reference Harris 34 in Coll-32/A.3, which was an earlier work by Dott on the same subject.
Text of paper on 'Facial Pain', June 1951
Text of paper by Norman Dott on 'Facial Pain', delivered in June 1951. The material consists of the text of the paper, with summary, list of slides, and glossary of Scots terms used in poem by Robert Burns 'Address to the Tooth-Ache', with which paper opens. When the lecture was first delivered, these verses were spoken by Doctor A. Brownlie Smith and the item includes Dott's letter of instructions to him on his 'powerful declamation'.