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MOTT, VALENTINE (1785–1865)

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MOTT, See also:VALENTINE (1785–1865) , See also:American surgeon, was See also:born at Glen See also:Cove, New See also:York, on the 20th of See also:August 1785. He graduated at See also:Columbia See also:College, studied under See also:Sir See also:Astley See also:Cooper in See also:London, and also spent a See also:winter in See also:Edinburgh. After acting as demonstrator of See also:anatomy he was appointed See also:professor of See also:surgery in Columbia College in. 1809. From 1811 to 1834 he was in very extensive practice as a surgeon, and most successful as a teacher and operator. He tied the innominate artery in 1818; the patient lived twenty-six days. He performed a similar operation on the See also:carotid See also:forty-six times with See also:good results; and in 1827 he was also successful in the See also:case of the See also:common iliac. He is said to have performed one thousand amputations and one See also:hundred and sixty-five lithotomies. After spending seven years in See also:Europe (1834–1841) Mott returned to New York and founded the university medical college of that See also:city. He translated A. A. L.

M. Velpeau's Operative Surgery, and was See also:

foreign See also:associate of the Imperial See also:Academy of See also:Medicine of See also:Paris. He died on the 26th of See also:April 1865.

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