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 16 Collections and/or Records:
Paper headed, 'Extract not used in Dublin 53 slides'., 1964
Paper by Norman Dott headed, 'Extract not used in Dublin 53 slides'. The material refers to a lecture, 'The surgery of the optic nerves', presented by Norman Dott in April 1964.
Separate copy of introduction and list of slides for 'The surgery of the optic nerves', April 1964
Separate copy of introduction and list of slides for Norman Dott's lecture, 'The surgery of the optic nerves' which he gave in Dublin, April 1964.
'Subacute and chronic inflammatory hydrocephalus', October 1934
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Subacute and chronic inflammatory hydrocephalus'. The paper was delivered to the Scottish Ophthalmological Club, dated October 1934.
'Surgical disorders of the pituitary gland', c 1957
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Surgical disorders of the pituitary gland'. The material consists of an extended lecture with 70 slides, heavily revised, using similar material to Coll-32/D.117-D.118, treated in greater detail. It is missing its first page, however. The material includes a list of case-histories.
'The differential diagnosis and operability of lesions in the neighbourhood of the optic chiasm', July 1931
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The differential diagnosis and operability of lesions in the neighbourhood of the optic chiasm'. The paper was delivered to the Society of British Neurololgical Surgeons, Dublin, dated July 1931. See also Coll-32/F.49.
'Traumatic lesions of the optic chiasma', 1934
Paper by Norman Dott, 'Traumatic lesions of the optic chiasma'. The material consists of a manuscript draft, with notes and correspondence with William Ritchie Russell, dated 1934 and was published as an article in Brain, 58, see reference Harris 35 in Coll-32/A.3.
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