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 and Karsten Kettel, 1956-1958

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.187

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and Karsten Kettel, dated 1956-1958. The correspondence relates to the importance of Dott's work in facial nerve surgery and it includes a copy of Kettel's note on Dott's 'Intracranial Nerve Grafting'. See reference Harris 61 in Coll-32/A.3.

Dates: 1956-1958

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 Lady Cairns, 1966

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.229

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and Lady Cairns [widow of Hugh Cairns]. The correspondence relates to Dott presenting 'Training and Certification in Surgical Neurology and Surgery for UK and overseas' as the Third Sir Hugh Cairns Memorial Lecture.

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 Macdonald Critchley and others, September 1939-October 1939

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Identifier: Coll-32/B.11

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and Macdonald Critchley and others, dated September 1939-October 1939. The material relates to the treatment of Naval casualties in Scotland by Dott's unit.

Dates: September 1939-October 1939

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / University of Edinburgh / Papers and correspondence relating to the Second World War / Correspondence regarding Dott's 'Brain Injuries Unit' at Bangour

Correspondence between Norman Dott and Mary Aytoun, 1962-1964

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.214

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and Mary Aytoun, dated 1962-1964. Aytoun was President of the Clarinda Edinburgh Ladies Burns Club.

Dates: 1962-1964

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / Lectures and papers on Robert Burns and Medicine

Correspondence between Norman Dott and Michael F.A. Woodruff, 1961-1962

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Identifier: Coll-32/H.17

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and Michael F.A. Woodruff, 1961-1962.

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

Correspondence between Norman Dott and officers, 1959

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.132

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and officers. The material relates to the lecture gave at University of St Andrews Medical Society in February 1959 on the history of neurosurgery.

Dates: 1959

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / Lectures and papers on 'Surgical Neurology and other disciplines'

Correspondence between Norman Dott and officers of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1951

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.66

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and officers of Royal Society of Medicine, dated 1951. The material relates to the delivery of Dott's paper and projected publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Dott was asked to abridge his paper for publication however he refused to do so. The correspondants are John Angell-James and A.M. Zamora.

Dates: 1951

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

Correspondence between Norman Dott and Oliver Zangwill, 1948

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Identifier: Coll-32/H.6

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and Oliver Zangwill, dated 1948. The correspondence is mainly regarding Zangwill's paper 'Amnesia and cerebral localisation' in collaboration with Andrew Paterson, based on studies carried out at the Brain Injuries Unit, Bangour, Edinburgh 1941-1943. It includes a draft of the paper, with Dott's comments and ensuing discussion and also one letter from Kate Hermann to Zangwill.

Dates: 1948

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

Correspondence between Norman Dott and organisers of the Second International Congress of Neurological Surgery, 1961

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Identifier: Coll-32/D/155

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Correspondence between Norman Dott and organisers of the Second International Congress of Neurological Surgery, dated 1961. The correspondence is regarding the paper 'Acoustic Neuromas - the desirability and practicability of total removal', which Dott presented there.

Dates: 1961

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / 'Acoustic Neuromas - the desirability and practicability of total removal'

Correspondence between Norman Dott and other medical professionals, 1953-1966

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.51

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Norman Dott and other medical professionals and related documents. The material consists of a letter from Norman Dott to John Graham regarding Robert Louis Stevenson's death from an intracranial aneurysm, dated 1953; letter from Norman Dott to John Marshall, enclosing manuscript of lecture 'which I have not had time to publish, hoping it may be of use', dated 1954; letter from Bertram Selverstone to Norman Dott regarding Dott's carotid occlusion clamp, dated 1955;...

Dates: 1953-1966

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / Papers on intracranial aneurysms

Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon)

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