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:
69th Meeting, Aberdeen, May 1964
69th Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (S.B.N.S.), Aberdeen, May 1964. The material consists of a programme; committee papers; manuscript notes by Norman Dott on the papers given; and brief correspondence with Dott.
71st Meeting, Sheffield, May 1965
71st Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (S.B.N.S.), Sheffield, May 1965. The material consists of an agenda; programme; committee papers; and manuscript notes by Norman Dott on the papers given.
73rd Meeting, London, 1963-1966
74th meeting, Dublin, September 1966
74th Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (S.B.N.S.), Dubling, September 1966. The material consists of a programme; committee papers; and manuscript notes by Dott on the papers given.
75th Meeting, Preston and 76th Meeting, New York, May 1967-October 1967
77th Meeting, Coimbra, May 1968-June 1968
77th Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (S.B.N.S.), Coimbra, Portugal, May 1968-June 1968. The material consists of notices of the meeting; correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues regarding the meeting, Cairns Lecture, etc.; and message of greeting sent by Dott to be read at the meeting.
78th meeting, Glasgow, September 1968
78th Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (S.B.N.S.), Glasgow, September 1968. The material consists of committee papers and notices of the meeting; and letter from Norman Dott regretting his absence and sending message of greeting to be read at meeting.
81st Meeting, Hull, September 1970
81st Meeting of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (S.B.N.S.), Hull, September 1970. The material consists of a programme and correspondence regarding Norman Dott's absence from A. Norman Guthkelch. Sir Charles Symonds' 6th Hugh Cairns Lecture was given at this meeting, see Coll-32/H.32.
'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.
'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.
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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