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.

Found in 641 Collections and/or Records:

Talk to Surgical Travellers Club, December 1969

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.271

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Talk by Norman Dott to the Surgical Travellers Club, dated December 1969.

Dates: December 1969

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

'Technical advances in the radical treatment of intracranial tumours', September 1930

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.10

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Lecture, 'Technical advances in the radical treatment of intracranial tumours' delivered by Norman Dott to the Chirurgical Club, Edinburgh, dated September 1930. Contains letter to Professor David Wilkie, outlining points for the lecture.

Dates: September 1930

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / Lectures on the surgery of intracranial tumours

Tenth meeting of Brain Injuries Committee (B.I.C.) [check date is correct], 4 March 1941

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Identifier: Coll-32/B.28

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Tenth meeting of Brain Injuries Committee (B.I.C.) dated 4 March 1941. The material includes an unnumbered B. I .C. paper on research work by investigators at various centres. [The date in the orginal handlist was obviously a typo. The correct date has been assumed from the context]

Dates: 4 March 1941

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.)

Text of appeal by Dott for further funds and letter from Sir Alexander Grant to Norman Dott, undated and June 1936

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Identifier: Coll-32/B.9

Scope and Contents Text of further appeal for funds by Norman Dott, outlining, history and funding of brain surgery in Edinburgh. The document is undated but is probably from 1936. Letter from Sir Alexander Grant in reply to that, or similar appeal, agreeing to give £5,000 for 7 years for Dott's Department. The letter says, in part, 'As I explained to you, I am really not in a position to give the full amount all at once and, frankly, I would not have been willing to have parted with it for any other object,...

Dates: undated and June 1936

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / University of Edinburgh / Correspondence, reports and papers regarding the development of neuro-surgery in Edinburgh

Text of paper on 'Facial Pain', June 1951

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.65

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Text of paper by Norman Dott on 'Facial Pain', delivered in June 1951. The material consists of the text of the paper, with summary, list of slides, and glossary of Scots terms used in poem by Robert Burns 'Address to the Tooth-Ache', with which paper opens. When the lecture was first delivered, these verses were spoken by Doctor A. Brownlie Smith and the item includes Dott's letter of instructions to him on his 'powerful declamation'.

Dates: June 1951

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / 'Facial Pain'

Text of 'The treatment of intractable pain', May 1959

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.133

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Text of paper by Norman Dott, 'The treatment of intractable pain'. This paper was delivered at the meeting of Neurology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, dated May 1959 and the material consists of the text as delivered, with many revisions.

Dates: May 1959

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / Lectures and papers on 'The treatment of intractable pain'

'The after-care of colostomy etc. patients by means of the Regional Stoma Clinic', June 1972

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.282

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The after-care of colostomy etc. patients by means of the Regional Stoma Clinic', dated June 1972. The talk was given to medical students on the work of the clinic.

Dates: June 1972

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

'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 103 cases', October 1962

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.198

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 103 cases'. The paper was delivered to the Eighth Congress of the Hungarian Association of Neurologists and Psychiatrists, Budapest, dated October 1962. The material consists of a typescript of the text and summary of the paper with many manuscript revisions.

Dates: October 1962

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases'

'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases', June 1963

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.199

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Lecture by Norman Dott in collaboration with J.J. Maccabe, 'The arteriovenous malformations of the brain: review of 115 cases'. The paper is marked with note 'version used at Lyon, June 1963'.

Dates: June 1963

'The circulation of C.S.F. [Cerebro-Spinal Fluid] and its derangements', 1956

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.63

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Lecture by Norman Dott, 'The circulation of C.S.F. [Cerebro-Spinal Fluid] and its derangements'. The paper is noted 'P.G. [Postgraduate] Basic Sciences', dated 1956.

Dates: 1956

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Norman McOmish Dott / Lectures, speeches, addresses / Lectures and papers on cerebro-spinal fluid

Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon)

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