Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon)

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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:

Correspondence between Norman Dott, Alex R. Taylor and John B. Wilson, 1973

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Identifier: Coll-32/H.39

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Correspondence between Norman Dott, Alex R. Taylor and John B. Wilson, 1973. The correspondence with John B. Wilson relates to death from suffocation in epilepsy, and smother-proof pillows.

Dates: 1973

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Correspondence

Correspondence between Norman Dott and American Foundations and grant-giving bodies, 1963-1965

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Identifier: Coll-32/F.18

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and American Foundations and grant-giving bodies, 1963. The correspondents are: Eugene P. Pendergrass, I.S. Ravdin, Alexander Robertson, Rockefeller Foundation and Richard H. Shyrock. The mterial also includes press-cuttings, printed documents, shorter notes and correspondence with Dott regarding the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh and its Appeal of 1965.

Dates: 1963-1965

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Committees and Societies / Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh

Correspondence between Norman Dott and Charles G. Drake

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.188

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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.

Dates: 1936-1963

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / Lectures and correspondence on 'Facial Paralysis'

Correspondence between Norman Dott and Charles Putnam Symonds, 1969-1972

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Identifier: Coll-32/H.32

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Norman Dott and Charles Putnam Symonds, dated 1969-1972. The correspondence mainly relates to Symonds' projected writings on his professional life and on the Sixth Sir Hugh Cairns Memorial Lecture, which he gave in September 1970 (see Coll-32/F.104), but also other professional matters, and social and personal exchanges. It includes interesting reminiscences of Harvey Cushing, Hugh Cairns, Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, etc. and the development of neurosurgery in the United...

Dates: 1969-1972

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Correspondence

Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1963-1964

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.178

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, dated 1963-1964. The material is regarding photographs and slides of cases, and publication of results in relation to Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation. The correspondents include A.P.M. Forrest

Dates: 1963-1964

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / Lectures and papers on 'Therapeutic Pituitary Deprivation'

Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1966

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.230

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues. The correspondence relates to the publication of Dott's lecture, 'Training and Certification in Surgical Neurology and Surgery for UK and overseas'.

Dates: 1966

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / 'Training and Certification in Surgical Neurology and Surgery for UK and overseas'

Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1967-1968

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Identifier: Coll-32/E.72

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1967-1968. The correspondence relates to meetings at the Congress and regarding other lectures and visits by Dott after the Toronto meeting. Some professional correspondence is included. The correspondents are: Edwin P. Boldrey, Paul C. Bucy (from Dott's visit to Chicago), Charles G. Drake (1967-1968) Joseph P. Evans, Kenneth E. Livingston, Robert L. Mclaurin, Wilder Penfield, Ernest Sachs and A. Earl Walker.

Dates: 1967-1968

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Conferences, visits, lecture tours / Congress of Neurological Surgeons 18th Annual Meeting, Toronto

Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1945-1946

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.29

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, dated 1945-1946. The material relates to the planning and content of the postgraduate course in Neurology. Most of the letters include a plan, titles or synopses of lectures suggested as suitable for the course. The correspndents are as follows: W. Blackwood (neuropathology), 1945; Mary Pickford (hypothalamus), 1946; C.A. Beevers (electroencephalography), 1946; Ernest Levin (clinical neurology), 1946; and Anthony E. Ritchie...

Dates: 1945-1946

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / University of Edinburgh Lectures / Postgraduate Lectures

Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1946-1947 and undated

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.30

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, dated 1946-1947 and undated. The material relates to the planning and content of the Postgraduate course in Internal Medicine and including plans and synopses of lectures. The correspondents are: J. Rostowski (motor system), undated; George I. Scott (medical ophthalmology), 1947; Anthony E. Ritchie (neurophysiology), 1946, 1947; Mary Pickford (hypothalamus), 1947; Richard W. B. Ellis (pediatrics), 1947; David Band (urology), 1947; James...

Dates: 1946-1947 and undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / University of Edinburgh Lectures / Postgraduate Lectures

Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1961-1962

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Identifier: Coll-32/H.20

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues, 1961-1962. The correspondence relates to equipment and surgical results and it includes some related offprints, photographs and suppliers' literature.

Dates: 1961-1962

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Correspondence / Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding his work on hypothermia and cerebral cooling

Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon)

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