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.

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Duplicated syllabus of programme of surgery lectures and related material, 1946

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.1

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Duplicated syllabus of programme of surgery lectures and of material for distribution to class, dated 1946. This was the year before Norman Dott became first Professor of Neurological Surgery.

Dates: 1946

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

Edinburgh Council of Social Service (ECSS), 1968-1972

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Identifier: Coll-32/F.6

Scope and Contents Material relating to the Edinburgh Council of Social Service (ECCS). The material consists of Council's papers, September 1969-April 1972, including papers for the Hostels Committee of which Norman Dott was a member; correspondence and papers regarding the working party to establish a Secretariat for voluntary organisations in Edinburgh; Dott's notes for meeting of the working party, 28 October 1968, and a copy of his remarks; papers regarding special meetings of the Edinburgh Committee for...

Dates: 1968-1972

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

Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine. Course in the Basic Sciences, 1955-1963

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.43

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Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine. The material consists of miscellaneous brochures and timetables for the course in the Basic Sciences, 1955-63 and correspondence between Norman Dott and Eric C. Mekie, dated 1958; and F. John Gillingham, dated 1963.

Dates: 1955-1963

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

Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine. Course on Road Accidents, December 1959-June 1960

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.46

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Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine. Course on Road Accidents. The material consists of miscellaneous suggestions for, and the final timetable of lectures and participants, and correspondence regarding the organisation of the course, dated December 1959-May 1960; and manuscript notes for Norman Dott's introductory talk on injuries of the spinal cord.

Dates: December 1959-June 1960

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

Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine. Lecture on head injury, November 1958

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.41

Scope and Contents Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine. Lecture by Norman Dott on head injury, dated November 1958. The material includes several versions of lectures on this subject as follows: notes, annotated typescript, and circulated outline for postgraduate lecture; 'The Living Pathology of Head Injuries and their Management', based on and enlarged from the previous lecture; 'Symposium on the Surgery of Repair - Head Injuries', lecture based on the first lecture; and Lecture to Borders Clinical...

Dates: November 1958

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

Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine. Lectures in Surgical Neurology, 1958

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.38

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Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine. Lectures in Surgical Neurology, dated summer 1958. The material consists of Norman Dott's manuscript outline and timetable of course and the lectures:'lntroductory'; 'lntracranial Tumours'; 'Special Diagnostic Methods'; and 'Displacement Syndrome'.

Dates: 1958

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

Editorial correspondence with Norman Dott regarding the publication of papers, 1958

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.126

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Editorial correspondence with Norman Dott. The correspondence is regarding the publication of 2 papers, 'Chronic arachnoiditis and hydrocephalus in the surgical management of acoustic tumours - a plea for early operation' and 'Facial paralysis and restitution by extra-petrous nerve graft', which were published in Proceedings of the Royal Medical Society, 51 in 1958. See references Harris 63 and 64 in Coll-32/A.3.

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'

Eighth meeting of Brain Injuries Committee (B.I.C.), 24 October 1940

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Identifier: Coll-32/B.25

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Eighth meeting of Brain Injuries Committee (B.I.C.), dated 24 October 1940. The material includes B.I.C. papers 34, 35, with Dott's annotations.

Dates: 24 October 1940

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 / Papers relating to the Brain Injuries Committee (B.I.C.)

Employment and Education Sub-Committee (originally called the 'Sheltered Work Sub-Committee'), December 1966-December 1973

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Identifier: Coll-32/F.5

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Material relating to the Employment and Education Sub-Committee (originally called the 'Sheltered Work Sub-Committee'). The name was changed in January 1971. The material consists of Committee papers, December 1966-December 1973, some annotated by Norman Dott. Full notes for discussion are written on verso of agendas for meetings on 10 March 1969 and 5 December 1972.

Dates: December 1966-December 1973

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Committees and Societies / Edinburgh Committee for the Co-ordination of Services for the Disabled (ECCSD)

Employment Sub-Committee and Welfare Sub-Committee, 1959-1973

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Identifier: Coll-32/F.9

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Material relating to the Employment Sub-Committee, 1959-1969 and Welfare Sub-Committee, 1973 of the Scottish Epilepsy Association, Edinburgh and South East Scotland Branch. The material consists of committee papers and correspondence with Norman Dott.

Dates: 1959-1973

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Committees and Societies / Scottish Epilepsy Association, Edinburgh and South East Scotland Branch

Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon)

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