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 76 Collections and/or Records:
Another version of 'Carotid cavernous arterio-venous fistula', May 1964
Another version of lecture by Norman Dott, 'Carotid cavernous arterio-venous fistula', dated May 1964. The paper was given to the Soceity of British Neurological Surgeons and it is revised and expanded, and with a new introduction compared with Coll-32/D.207.
Another version of 'Carotid cavernous arterio-venous fistula', September 1964
Another version of lecture by Norman Dott, 'Carotid cavernous arterio-venous fistula'. The paper was given to the Middle East Neurological Congress, Ankara, dated September 1964. Dott was asked to read this paper, but he was unable to attend and arranged for it to be read for him by Mr Kenneth Till.
Another version of 'Carotid cavernous arterio-venous fistula', 1964
Another version of lecture by Norman Dott, 'Carotid cavernous arterio-venous fistula'. The material is marked '1964 + Laity slides, 19', and it is a revised and expanded version of Coll-32/D.209.
Another version of 'Reflections on the history of surgical neurology', November 1966
Another version of the lecture by Norman Dott, 'Reflections on the history of surgical neurology'. The talk was, given as a Special British Medical Association Lecture to Waltham Forest Division, November 1966. The material is a heavily revised and extended version of Coll-32/D.234.
Another version of 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain...', marked 'Final Version', October 1964, 1966
'Final version Oct. 1964' , and copy of published paper, see reference Harris 80 in Coll-32/A.3.
'Carotid cavernous arterio-venous fistula', September 1963
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Carotid cavernous arterio-venous fistula', dated September 1963. The material includes 14 slides.
'Case Summaries, surgery optic Ns [Neurosurgery]', February 1964
Manuscript notes by Norman Dott, 'Case Summaries, surgery optic Ns [Neurosurgery]', dated Febrary 1964.
Copies of 'Facial paralysis and restitution by extra-petrous nerve graft', 1958
Copies of a paper by Norman Dott, 'Facial paralysis and restitution by extra-petrous nerve graft'. The paper is as delivered, as corrected as submitted for publication. See reference Harris 64 in Coll-32/A.3.
Copy of letter from Norman Dott to Doctor Robert W. Saxton, 1964
Copy of letter from Norman Dott to Doctor Robert W. Saxton, dated 1964. The letter discusses Dott's operative treatment of aneurysms.
Correspondence between Norman Dott and Charles G. Drake
Correspondence between Norman Dott and Charles G. Drake, dated 1958-1959. The correspondence is regarding cases of facial nerve surgery and Dott's comments on a paper submitted to him by Drake.
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