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 641 Collections and/or Records:
Committee papers, 1970-1973
Committee papers for meetings of Council and for annual general meetings, papers regarding Paraplegic Games, appeals, and rehabilitation units, 1970-1973.
Committee papers and correspondence with Norman Dott, 1962-1969
Committee papers and correspondence with Norman Dott relating to the Board of Studies, Scottish Association of Occupational Therapists, 1962-1969. The correspondence is regarding examination arrangements, examiners, setting of questions, and educational policy, etc.
Committee papers and correspondence with Norman Dott, 1969-1972
Committee papers and correspondence with Norman Dott relating to the Board of Studies, Scottish Association of Occupational Therapists, 1969-1972. The correspondence is regarding examination arrangements, examiners, setting of questions, and educational policy, etc.
Committee to deal with Review Committee on Medical Staffing Structure in Scottish Hospitals, 1962
Committee to deal with Review Committee on Medical Staffing Structure in Scottish Hospitals, dated 1962. The material contains a memorandum and letter from Dott- to the Dean of Faculty on grades of clinical appointments, etc.; memorandum on similar subject, heavily annotated by Dott; committee minutes and report annotated by Dott, dated January 1962, February 1962, March 1962 and April 1962.
'Concerning the physiology and surgery of the brain and spinal cord', April 1931
'Concerning the physiology and surgery of the brain and spinal cord'. The material consists of notes of a lecture by Norman Dott given at Postgraduate Study Week, Edinburgh, Branch of College of Nursing, dated April 1931.
'Congenital dislocation of the hip', 19 August 1931
'Congenital dislocation of the hip' The material consits of 2 versions of a lecture by Norman Dott with different annotations; and notes on patients used as illustrations, dated 19 AUgust 1931.
'Congenital dislocation of the hip', November 1933
'Congenital dislocation of the hip'. Lecture delivered by Norman Dott at the British Orthopaedic Associetion, Edinburgh, dated November 1933.
'Congenital Hip. Surg. [Surgical] Travellers', c 1931
'Congenital Hip. Surg. [Surgical] Travellers'. The material consists of shorter mansucript notes of lecture Coll-32/C.23 by Norman Dott, presumably given to Surgical Travellers Club, undated but the other lecture was from 1931.
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 1961, 1971-1973
Material relating to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 1961, 1971-1973. the material consists of correspondence with Norman Dott regarding congresses, and also Dott's presentation to the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh of Clinical Neurosurgery, 16, in which his addresses as 'Honored Guest' of the 1968 Congress at Toronto were published; and newsletters of the Congress.
Contribution by Norman Dott to a discussion meeting on anaesthetics, undated
Contribution by Norman Dott to a discussion meeting on anaesthetics, undated. The discussion espescially relates to the anaesthetic drug Avertin (tribromoethanol).
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- Neurosurgery 78
- Brain Neoplasms 19
- Epilepsy 17
- Ophthalmology 16
- Cerebrospinal Fluid 14
- Colostomy 14
- Pituitary Diseases 14
- Craniocerebral Trauma 13
- Facial Pain 11
- Intracranial Aneurysm 11
- Surgery 11
- Trigeminal Neuralgia 11
- Pediatrics | 10
- Autobiographies 9
- Paralysis 8
- Arteriovenous Malformations 7
- Carcinoma 7
- Hydrocephalus 7
- Aneurysm 6
- Arteriovenous Fistula 6
- Hip Injuries 5
- Facial Paralysis 4
- Obituaries 4
- Paraplegia 4
- Physical Disabilities 4
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 4
- Biographies 3
- Congenital Abnormalities 3
- Encephalitis 3
- Hypothalamus 3
- Hypothermia 3
- Neurology 3
- Pituitary gland 3
- Angiography 2
- Athens, Greece 2
- Breast cancer 2
- Dentistry 2
- India -- Calcutta 2
- Iran 2
- Neurology | Scotland | 2
- Pituitary neoplasms 2
- Portugal 2
- Portugal -- Porto 2
- Singapore 2
- South Africa 2
- South Africa -- Cape Town 2
- Spinal Diseases 2
- Thailand 2
- Thrombophlebitis 2
- United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston 2
- Accidents, Traffic 1
- Amnesia 1
- Amputation 1
- Anaesthesia 1
- Anaesthetics 1
- Anesthesia 1
- Arachnoiditis 1
- Belgium -- Brussels 1
- Blindness 1
- Blood | Transfusion | 1
- Blood--Coagulation 1
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America 1
- Brain 1
- Brain Diseases 1
- Buenos Aires (Argentina) 1
- Canada -- Alberta -- Edmonton 1
- Case Notes 1
- Central Nervous System Diseases 1
- Cerebral Palsy 1
- City of Dundee, Angus, Scotland 1
- Clinical Medicine 1
- Deafness 1
- Denmark -- Copenhagen 1
- Dyslexia 1
- Ear Diseases 1
- England -- Hull 1
- England -- Sheffield 1
- Facial Neuralgia 1
- Facial nerve 1
- Fishing 1
- Greece -- Thessalonike 1
- Hemorrhage 1
- Hong Kong (China) 1
- Illustrations 1
- Insulin 1
- Intracranial Hemorrhages 1
- Ireland -- Dublin 1
- Keratitis 1
- Klippel-Feil Syndrome 1
- Madras (India) 1
- Medical care | Edinburgh (Scotland) | 1
- Medicine | Edinburgh (Scotland) | Study and teaching | 1
- Medicine | History | 1
- Medicine | Research | 1
- Medicine | Study and teaching | Edinburgh (Scotland) | 1
- Netherlands -- Amsterdam 1
- Netherlands : Province -- Holland 1
- Neuroma, Acoustic 1
- New York City (New York, United States) 1
- Pain 1 + ∧ less