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:
Surgery Lectures - Surgical Neurology and manuscript notes , c 1956
Surgery Lectures - surgical neurology'and manuscript notes, date added 1956 but may contain earlier material. The material consists of course of lectures with slides, duplicated typescript and manuscript notes, 54 pp.; and Dott's manuscript introduction to the course. The material contains a typed version of Coll-32/C.5.
Surgery Lectures - Surgical Neurology lecture notes, plus shortened set notes and timetable and syllabus material, 1958-1959
Surgery Lectures - Surgical Neurology lecture notes plus shortened set notes with timetable and syllabus material, dated 1958-1959. The material consists of text of course of lectures, duplicated typescript, 47 pp., with manuscript corrections and additions, and many intercalated loose pages of commentary or revisions; set of shorter notes for lectures; and miscellaneous timetables and syllabus for undergraduate lectures.
Surgery Lectures - Surgical Neurology lectures with extensive additions, c 1956-1963
Surgery Lectures - Surgical Neurology lectures with extensive additions. The material consists of another copy of the lectures in Coll-32/C.5-C.6 but with extensive manuscript notes and additions by Norman Dott, and several additional pages. The material is undated but was presumably written between 1956 when the other lectures were dated and 1963 when Dott retired.
'Surgical and Medical Neurology: disintegration and reintegration in specialist surgery and medicine', March 1967
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Surgical and Medical Neurology: disintegration and reintegration in specialist surgery and medicine'. The paper was given as The Alexander Walsh Lecture and delivered to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, dated March 1967. The materail consists of the text of the lecture and diagrams as delivered.
'Surgical aspects of brain disease', December 1928
'Surgical aspects of brain disease'. Lecture delivered by Norman Dott to the Ayr branch of the British Medical Assocation, dated December 1928, using material from Coll-32/D.6 with a new introduction.
'Surgical aspects of brain disease', January 1929
Lecture 'Surgical aspects of brain disease' given by Norman Dott to Lanarkshire Division B.M.A. [British Medical Association], dated January 1929, containing the same material as Coll-32/D.6-D.7 but with a new introduction and revision of material.
'Surgical Diseases of the Central Nervous System', June 1933
'Surgical Diseases of the Central Nervous System'. The material consists of lecutre notes by Norman Dott for a postgraduate course in Surgical Pathology, dated June 1933.
'Surgical disorders of the pituitary gland', c 1957
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Surgical disorders of the pituitary gland'. The material consists of an extended lecture with 70 slides, heavily revised, using similar material to Coll-32/D.117-D.118, treated in greater detail. It is missing its first page, however. The material includes a list of case-histories.
'Surgical Neurology', c 1962-1973
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Surgical Neurology'. The talk was given to the Scottish Association of Neurological Sciences. The material is undated but uses some of the same material as Coll-32/D.165-D.168 which originated in 1962 with extensive additions, particularly on the training of neurological surgeons.
'Surgical Neurology', February 1959
Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Surgical Neurology', given to University of St. Andrews Medical Society, dated February 1959, using similar material to Coll-32/D.127-D.128 but re-written and further revised.
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- 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