VALENTINE

See also:

• MOTT, LUCRETIA [COFFIN] (1793–188o)
• VALENTINE MOTT (1785–1865)

MOTT (1785–1865)  , American surgeon, was born at Glen Cove, New York, on the 20th of August 1785 . He graduated at Columbia College, studied under Sir Astley Cooper in London, and also spent a winter in Edinburgh . After acting as demonstrator of anatomy he was appointed professor of 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 carotid forty-six times with good results; and in 1827 he was also successful in the case of the common iliac . He is said to have performed one thousand amputations and one hundred and sixty-five lithotomies . After spending seven years in Europe (1834–1841) Mott returned to New York and founded the university medical college of that city . He translated A . A . L .

M . Velpeau's Operative Surgery, and was

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