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 641 Collections and/or Records:
Department of Surgical Neurology material relating to the visit of Doctor K. Kristiansen (Oslo), 1960
Department of Surgical Neurology material relating to the visit of Doctor K. Kristiansen (Oslo) on Foreign University Interchange Scheme, dated 1960. The material contains arangements for visit; schedule of activities; and notes of Dott' introductory remarks at a lecture by Kristiansen and at a farewell dinner.
Department of Surgical Neurology Papers, 1908-1972
Correspondence; minutes; reports; photographs; patient case notes; lecture notes and teaching materials; journals; offprints; plans; diaries; illustrations; books.
Detroit. 54th Meeting, Society of Neurological Surgeons, 1963
Material relating to Norman Dotts visit to Detroit at the 54th Meeting, Society of Neurological Surgeons. The material consists of brief correspondence with Norman Dott; programme of the meeting with extensive manuscript notes by Dott on papers given; and a volume of abstracts of papers given at the meeting.
Dinner menus and conference programmes, with manuscript notes for after dinner speech, 1955
Dinner menus and conference programmes, with manuscript notes by Norman Dott for after dinner speech, 1955. The speech is probably for the one Dott gave at the Society of Neurological Surgeons meeting in Chicago.
Dinner Speeches, 1955-1959
Dinner Speeches, 1960-1967
'Discussion on diseases of the pituitary body', October 1929
English
'Disintegration in specialist medicine - modern patterns of re-integration', September 1968
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Disintegration in specialist medicine - modern patterns of re-integration'. The paper was delivered at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Toronto, dated September 1968.
Documents regarding the staffing of the Department of Surgical Neurology and its expansion and Dott's review of his Department, 1959-1967
Documents regarding the staffing of the Department of Surgical Neurology and its expansion after opening at a new Department of Western General Hospital in 1959, annotated and updated to 1962 and Dott's review of work of his Department, prepared for University Grants Committee 1960 and his Quinquennial Estimates 1962-1967.
Dott's report for Review Committee on Staffing at Department of Surgical Neurology and letter from Norman Dott, January 1962-1965
Dott's report for Review Committee on Staffing at Department of Surgical Neurology, dated January 1962 and letter from Norman Dott, dated 1965. The letter is regarding staff appointment and apportionment of salary as between NHS and the University of Edinburgh.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Neurosurgery 78
- Brain Neoplasms 19
- Epilepsy 17
- Ophthalmology 16
- Cerebrospinal Fluid 14
- Colostomy 14
- Pituitary Diseases 14
- Craniocerebral Trauma 13
- Facial Pain 11
- Intracranial Aneurysm 11
- Surgery 11
- Trigeminal Neuralgia 11
- Pediatrics | 10
- Autobiographies 9
- Paralysis 8
- Arteriovenous Malformations 7
- Carcinoma 7
- Hydrocephalus 7
- Aneurysm 6
- Arteriovenous Fistula 6
- Hip Injuries 5
- Facial Paralysis 4
- Obituaries 4
- Paraplegia 4
- Physical Disabilities 4
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 4
- Biographies 3
- Congenital Abnormalities 3
- Encephalitis 3
- Hypothalamus 3
- Hypothermia 3
- Neurology 3
- Pituitary gland 3
- Angiography 2
- Athens, Greece 2
- Breast cancer 2
- Dentistry 2
- India -- Calcutta 2
- Iran 2
- Neurology | Scotland | 2
- Pituitary neoplasms 2
- Portugal 2
- Portugal -- Porto 2
- Singapore 2
- South Africa 2
- South Africa -- Cape Town 2
- Spinal Diseases 2
- Thailand 2
- Thrombophlebitis 2
- United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston 2
- Accidents, Traffic 1
- Amnesia 1
- Amputation 1
- Anaesthesia 1
- Anaesthetics 1
- Anesthesia 1
- Arachnoiditis 1
- Belgium -- Brussels 1
- Blindness 1
- Blood | Transfusion | 1
- Blood--Coagulation 1
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America 1
- Brain 1
- Brain Diseases 1
- Buenos Aires (Argentina) 1
- Canada -- Alberta -- Edmonton 1
- Case Notes 1
- Central Nervous System Diseases 1
- Cerebral Palsy 1
- Clinical Medicine 1
- Deafness 1
- Denmark -- Copenhagen 1
- Dundee -- Scotland 1
- Dyslexia 1
- Ear Diseases 1
- England -- Hull 1
- England -- Sheffield 1
- Facial Neuralgia 1
- Facial nerve 1
- Fishing 1
- Greece -- Thessalonike 1
- Hemorrhage 1
- Hong Kong (China) 1
- Illustrations 1
- Insulin 1
- Intracranial Hemorrhages 1
- Ireland -- Dublin 1
- Keratitis 1
- Klippel-Feil Syndrome 1
- Madras (India) 1
- Medical care | Edinburgh (Scotland) | 1
- Medicine | Edinburgh (Scotland) | Study and teaching | 1
- Medicine | Research | 1
- Medicine | Study and teaching | Edinburgh (Scotland) | 1
- Netherlands -- Amsterdam 1
- Netherlands : Province -- Holland 1
- Neuroma, Acoustic 1
- New York City (New York, United States) 1
- Pain 1
- Parkinsonian Disorders 1