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 19 Collections and/or Records:
'Surgical aspects of brain disease', January 1929
Lecture 'Surgical aspects of brain disease' given by Norman Dott to Lanarkshire Division B.M.A. [British Medical Association], dated January 1929, containing the same material as Coll-32/D.6-D.7 but with a new introduction and revision of material.
'Technical advances in the radical treatment of intracranial tumours', September 1930
Lecture, 'Technical advances in the radical treatment of intracranial tumours' delivered by Norman Dott to the Chirurgical Club, Edinburgh, dated September 1930. Contains letter to Professor David Wilkie, outlining points for the lecture.
'The clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children', January 1952
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children'. The paper was delivered to the to Faculty of Radiologists (Radiotherapy Section), Royal College of Surgeons, London, dated January 1952. The material consists of a programme of the meeting; text and summary of Dott's lecture; text and summary of lecture by F.J. Gillingham following on from Dott's; and brief correspondnece regarding the lecture and its publication.
'The clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children', February 1952
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The clinical features and types of intracranial tumours in children'. The paper was delivered to Leicester Medical Society, dated February 1952.
'The common features in brain displacements by tumours, by haemorrhage and by violence', May 1955
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The common features in brain displacements by tumours, by haemorrhage and by violence'. This paper is The Hughlings Jackson Lecture, 1955 and was given at the meeting of the Montreal Neurological Society, dated May 1955. The material consists of a corrected manuscript and list of slides for the lecture as delivered.
'The Neurological syndromes of cerebral displacement by expanding lesions', c 1961
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The Neurological syndromes of cerebral displacement by expanding lesions', undated c 1961. The material consists of a typescript of the text, with manuscript corrections.
'The Neurological syndromes of cerebral displacement by expanding lesions', c 1961
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The Neurological syndromes of cerebral displacement by expanding lesions', undated c 1961. The material consists of typescript of the text with extensive manuscript corrections and additional material.
'The surgery of intra-craniaI diseases', undated
'The surgery of intra-craniaI diseases'. The material consists of an extended account of the lectures given in Coll-32/D.6-D.8, with more and fuller casenotes, of the subject and Dott's methods, 34 pp. undated but kept with group of manuscripts on the subject.
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.
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