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.

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Norman Dott's lectures in neurology for Postgraduate course, 1947 and undated

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.32

Scope and Contents Norman Dott's lectures in neurology for Postgraduate course, dated 1947 and undated. The 9 lectures are as follows: 'Lect. [Lecture] I - Self' (Introductory); 'Neurology'; 'Increased I. C. [Intra-cranial] Pressure'; 'Chronic Increased I.C. [Intra-cranial] Pressure', dated February 1947; 'Special Diagnostic Methods'; 'Special Methods of Diagnosis in Diseases of C. N. S. [Central Nervous System]' (manuscript and typescript versions); 'Treatment'; 'Treatment of Neurological Cases'; and...

Dates: 1947 and undated

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

Norman Dott's opening remarks, July 1959

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Identifier: Coll-32/E.21

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Norman Dott's opening remarks at the meeting of the Section of Neurology and Neurosurgery, July 1959. The material consists of a manuscript draft of the talk, his notes on papers given, and questions asked from the floor.

Dates: July 1959

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Conferences, visits, lecture tours / Joint Annual Meeting, British and Canadian Medical Associations, Edinburgh

Norman Dott's speech as 'Guest of the Evening', 1962

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Identifier: Coll-32/F.16

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Norman Dott's speech as 'Guest of the Evening' at a dinner given to him by the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh on his retirement in 1962. The material consists of a typescript with manuscript corrections and also a letter of congratulation on his speech from Sir Walter Mercer, and Dott's covering letter with his own subscription (the first to be received) to the appeal for funds for new premises for the Society.

Dates: 1962

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

Notes and diagrams by Norman Dott on hospital planning, for papers and lectures at various dates, undated

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Identifier: Coll-32/G.17

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Notes and diagrams by Norman Dott on hospital planning, for papers and lectures at various dates, undated.

Dates: undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Working papers, notes and drawings

Notes and diagrams of pain mechanisms by Norman Dott and correspondence between Dott and Sir Charles Symonds, c 1924-1943

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Identifier: Coll-32/G.12

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Notes and diagrams of pain mechanisms by Norman Dott and correspondence on pain between Dott and Sir Charles Symonds, c 1924-1943. The material includes photographs for Dott's later paper on facial nerve graft, see reference Harris 61 in Coll-32/A.3. The correspondence was following a visit to Dott's wartime unit, 1943.

Dates: c 1924-1943

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Working papers, notes and drawings / Notes and papers on Pain

Notes for a talk to 'Sisters A.A.H.' [Astley Ainslie Hospital], July 1971

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.275

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Notes for a talk by Norman Dott to 'Sisters A.A.H.' [Astley Ainslie Hospital], dated July 1971. The talk relates to colostomy after-care.

Dates: July 1971

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / Papers and correspondence on Colostomy and Stoma Clinic

Notes for talk on 'Pituitary and Thyroid Experiments...', c 1922

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Identifier: Coll-32/G.4

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Notes for talk on Pituitary and Thyroid Experiments and Thyroid Experiments especially Bone Growth ', 3 pp., undated but probably 1922 during progress of Norman Dott and John Fraser's, Medical Research Council research.

Dates: c 1922

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Working papers, notes and drawings / Work on the Pituitary

Notes of talk by Norman Dott at 'Dept. [Department] meeting 21.1.59' regarding use of Ward 20 Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 21 January 1959

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Identifier: Coll-32/C.42

Scope and Contents File marked'Dept. meeting 21.1.59'. The material consists of a talk by Norman Dott outlining plans to use 'Ward 20 R.E.I. (Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh' for 'Traumatic surgical neurology - mostly head injuries' after the opening of Department of Surgical Neurolgy at the Western General Hospital, and explaining specialist treatment required for head injury service (see also Coll-32/B.52-B.60). Also contains manuscript notes by Dott on the literature, and on lectures by colleagues on the...

Dates: 21 January 1959

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

Notes of talks and papers taken by Norman Dott at an unidentified conference, April 1970

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Identifier: Coll-32/G.16

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Notes of talks and papers taken by Norman Dott at an unidentified conference, April 1970.

Dates: April 1970

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Working papers, notes and drawings

Notes on the literature of pain, by Norman Dott and others, undated

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Identifier: Coll-32/G.13

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Notes on the literature of pain, by Norman Dott and others, undated.

Dates: undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Working papers, notes and drawings / Notes and papers on Pain

Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon)

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