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:
Typescript and manuscript draft for publication, May 1940
Typescript and manuscript draft by Norman Dott for publication, dated May 1940. The material is regarding localised non-suppurative encephalitis and is accompanied by an envelope containing 4 sets of photographs for figures, numbered, described and with suggestions for arrangement on the page. This material was not listed in Phillip Harris' bibliography in Coll-32/A.3.
Typescript copy of Harvey Cushing Society Lecture, May 1955
Typescript copy of Harvey Cushing Society Lecture by Norman Dott, dated May 1955. The material includes manuscript additions headed 'P.G. [Postgraduate] Basic Sciences 1955'.
Typescript of brief: 'Department of Surgical Neurology, Edinburgh at the Royal Infirmary and Western General Hospital', 1960
Typescript of brief entitled 'Department of Surgical Neurology, Edinburgh at the Royal Infirmary and Western General Hospital', 14 pp. + 2 pp. of Appendices. Presumably dated 1960, when the invitation for Dott to write the brief was made.
Typescript of published version of 'The history of surgical neurology in the 20th century', 1971
Paper by Norman Dott, 'The history of surgical neurology in the 20th century'. The material consists of a typescript version of this paper as published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 64, 1971.
'U.G. lectures [Undergraduate] - Surgical neurology, 1958. Introduction' and 'U.G. lectures [Undergraduate] - Surgical neurology, 1959. Introduction', 1958-1959 and undated
University of Edinburgh Surgical Union meeting, July 1942
University Edinburgh Surgical Union meeting at Bangour Emergency Hospital (Brain Injuries Unit), dated July 1942. The material consists of a talk by Dott on the work of the Unit and rehabilitation of head-injury patients.
Untitled address to Aberdeen University Anatomical and Anthropological Society, November 1959
Untitled address by Norman Dott to Aberdeen University Anatomical and Anthropological Society, dated November 1959. The material is regarding the history of surgical neurology and other disciplines and consists of a typescript of the lecture with manuscript revisions.
Untitled address to Aberdeen University Anatomical and Anthropological Society, November 1959
Untitled address by Norman Dott to Aberdeen University Anatomical and Anthropological Society, dated November 1959. The material is regarding the history of surgical neurology and other disciplines and consists of a typescript of the lecture which has been very extensively revised, when compared with Coll-32/D.139
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 regarding 'cranio-cerebral injuries of civilian practice' , undated
Untitled lecture by Norman Dott regarding 'cranio-cerebral injuries of civilian practice'. The material is undated but was kept with a group of lectures on similar topics from the early 1930s.
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- Ophthalmology 16
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- Colostomy 14
- Pituitary Diseases 14
- Craniocerebral Trauma 13
- Facial Pain 11
- Intracranial Aneurysm 11
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- Facial Paralysis 4
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- Paraplegia 4
- Physical Disabilities 4
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 4
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- Angiography 2
- Athens, Greece 2
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- India -- Calcutta 2
- Iran 2
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- Pituitary neoplasms 2
- Portugal 2
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- Singapore 2
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