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THE sad death of Norman Dott has occurred almost exactly fifty years after he brought modern neurosurgery to this country, because that is just what he did. Not that he was the first British neurosurgeon; that priority belongs to Victor Horsley who was appointed as such t o the National Hospital in 1886. Horsley was 'recruited' to the nervous system by Edward Schafer, then Professor of Physiology at University College, London; forty years later, as Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer and Professor of Physiology in Edinburgh, it was he who also recruited Norman Dott. Horsley in the meantime had been showing that the brain could tolerate operations at the hands of a few brilliant general surgeons, but the results were nothing like as good or as consistent as those being obtained by Harvey Cushing in Boston. This fact was known to Sir Walter Fletcher, of the Medical Research Committee as it then was, and it was on a visit to Sharpey-Schafer's laboratory where
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