Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon)

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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 641 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding the Committee for the promotion of angling for the disabled, 1972-1973

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Identifier: Coll-32/H.38

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Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding the Committee for the promotion of angling for the disabled, 1972-1973. This Committee was organised by Thomas Mackenzie, who became its Chairman and Dott agreed to be a 'Patron'.

Dates: 1972-1973

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

Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding the medical staffing at Dundee (University of St. Andrews) and duplicated report [which report? - check]

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Identifier: Coll-32/B.47

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Correspondence regarding the medical staffing at Dundee (University of St. Andrews) and duplicated report [which report? - check on return to main library]

Dates: 1961-1962

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / University of Edinburgh / University of Edinburgh Faculty of Medicine / Miscellaneous documents prepared or assembled by Dott regarding medical staffing

Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding 'The road to recovery' lecture, 1961-1962

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.164

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Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding 'The road to recovery' lecture, dated 1961-1962. The material relates to Dott's lecture which was delivered as the Founder's Lecture at the Annual Congress of the Society of Physiotherapy, London in September 1962 and published in Physiotherapy, see reference Harris 71 in Coll-32/A.3.

Dates: 1961-1962

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / 'The road to recovery'

Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh's Appeal, 1962-1964

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Identifier: Coll-32/F.17

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Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh's Appeal, 1962-1964. Correspondents are (in alphabetical order) John A. Calvert, 1962, G. Morrison Carstairs, 1963, Sir Derrick Dunlop, 1962-1963 (Dunlop was Convenor of the Appeal Committee and Dott gave him a full account of his fund-raising activities in the U.S.A.), Ewart Robin B. Lockhart, 1963, and John P. Hubbard, 1963-1964.

Dates: 1962-1964

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

Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding visit to Oslo, May 1964

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Identifier: Coll-32/E.48

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Correspondence with Norman Dott regarding visit to Oslo, dated May 1964. The material consists of programme of the visit; correspondence with K. Kristiansen; and Dott's notes on professional and social engagements during visit, hospitals visited, speeches etc.

Dates: May 1964

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Conferences, visits, lecture tours / Visits to Holland and Norway

Correspondence with Norman Dott relating to 'The Edinburgh self-retaining brain retractor', 1959-1964

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Identifier: Coll-32/H.16

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Correspondence with Norman Dott relating to 'The Edinburgh self-retaining brain retractor', dated 1959-1964. Dott had considerable difficulty in having these precision instruments accurately made. The correspondence is mainly with the suppliers of surgical instruments regarding the retractors, a drum holder for them, a neurosurgical operating table, etc. and also supply of instruments to colleagues abroad.

Dates: 1959-1964

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

Correspondence with other contributors, manuscript notes and photographs, 1958

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.125

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Correspondence with other contributors, manuscript notes and photographs. The material relates to Dott's papers on arachnoiditis and hydrocephalus and facial paralysis. The correspondent is C.S. Hallpike.

Dates: 1958

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / 'Chronic arachnoiditis and hydrocephalus...' and 'Facial paralysis and restitution by extra-petrous nerve graft'

Course of lectures, c 1946

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.2

Scope and Contents Course of lectures, undated but c 1946. The material contains outline of course and subjects to be covered, 9 pp.; 'Importance of C.N.S.' [Central Nervous System]; 'Head Injury'; 'Increased lntracranial Pressure (chronic); 'Acute Increased Intracranial Pressure';'Physiology and Anatomy', with manuscript note signed 'A.P.' [Andrew Paterson] beginning, 'No, I could not possibly improve on your selection of psychological functions in connection with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous...

Dates: c 1946

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

'C.S.F. [Cerebro-Spinal Fluid] Circulation and its Mechanical Pathologies' , 1958, 1961

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.161

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'C.S.F. [Cerebro-Spinal Fluid] Circulation and its Mechanical Pathologies'. The material is a re-titled version of an earlier lecture by Dott on 'C.S.F. [Berebro-Spinal Fluid] circulation in relation to Surgery', revised and updated. The material consists of a manuscript of the lecture with lists of slides, dated 1958 and 1961.

Dates: 1958, 1961

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / 'The Neurological syndromes of cerebral displacement by expanding lesions'

Department of Surgical Neurology, 1954-1958

Sub-Series

Identifier: LHB13/11/5

Scope and Contents

Plans of spaces within the Department of Surgical Neurology, which opened at the Western General Hospital in 1960, overseen by Professor Norman Dott.

Dates: 1954-1958

Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Western General Hospital / Plans (including Phase II Development)

Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon)

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