, 1865-05-02
Death OF Dr. Valentine mott,
{FFpn TIM New Yars Ts1,h,r. 01.t.


The first surgeon of America Is dead. Val.
satlno MOL expired last evening At his resi-
usnce m Gfametcy Park, In the 80th Year Of
| 45 age. 10 bis immense lame he leaves no
ne15 on thla' continent scarcely a rival even
N Europe. Beyond qu. etion the most orig.
!nai Reni9s IN surger9 who spoke the English
y ngnr, since John Huuter died. II. is dnnbt-
! ~ whether even the great Frenchman who in
l1e laat bali century has made Paris the
SCHOOL Of the world In surgical science, DOS
| Sessta greater powers Of mind. or more dar.
uE hsentlon, Or. more dtlicately taught
i aa1t, than valentine Notk Pup,lsin Ame;i ;ica'
he, he aas many, but the greatest Of them bowed
not Garnochan nor symmes, nor .Puncoast,
nor warren, nor the cunning anatomists OF
fhiiadelphla or New York or Boston ever
teougn1 o. reaching the first place in their
profession till Mott had rel.nqu1shed It, But
1o,qay the hcld Ia open to all comers.
l., August e0. 1785. He vas graduated u.
Dat. the Columbia College 10 1906, then
STUDIED two years in London under Aber-
nethy, Aetley Cooper. and Ci,ne.. He went
thence to Edinburg. where he spent Jcar.
From lSo9 to 1878 be wasp Professor Of Surgery
u Columbia College, and thereafter till 1896,
held the same chair In the College of Physi. /
cians md Surgeons. With an interval Of four
years service IN tie ehortlived Rutgers Med
eal College, be returned to the College of
fbysieinlis and Surgeons, passing thence to
the University Medical College, Of which be
vas founder, as Professor Of Surgery aud
KeIatiye Ana' omy: ,iof the latter science,
elared the author. But his brllliant repusa-
tion, says high authority, is mainly due |
to bis original operations as surgeon. As |
early as 1873 DR.. Mott placed d ligaturc !
GROUND the bracheocepha1ic trunk, or artrria |
1tnnomlnata, only two inches from: the heart
artery, for the first time In the history /
Of surgery. The patient survived the opera
ton: twenty-stx days, Indicating the feasiblli- !
ty Of 90 dangerous an undertaking. He e1-'f
sected the entile right clavicle for malignant
disease Of that bone, where it was necessary
70 70 apply forty ngatures; IN operation which
Dr. Mott himself asserts to be the most dan
3ercus AID difficult that can be perfprmtdJ i
Upon the human body. .,-
The Patient Is still living, mud enjoys per-
Fect health. DR.. Mott WAS the first to tie the
primitive lilac artery for aneurism. He has
led the common carotid forty-st1 times, cut
or stone ene hundred and sixty-fve times, I
Ind nrnputated nearly one thousand umbs'
He early introduced his original operation for
nmohittty Of the lower jaw, and succeeded
tter many eminent surgeons bad failed. In
OIL he performed the 1irst operation for o.
ofDr: Mott the great Sir Ashley Cooper
asd; HE has performed more OF the great
Psiarle1s E. nrl than any man lving Or tht srer
our volumes svo. Velpeau's Operatiye Sur
ery, then and now leading work, md nu-
1e1ous Papc1s and reports Of his have been
'tintcd both In America and Europe. His
ingle name and fame have more than all 9th
is ctnttibated to give celebrity in Europe to
american surgical science, and Whnt is an in
nffniV' hfrhar ha has FU III |
ands and by those q lis pupils co1tsf4e9 g m 9sn an
ncalcu&able benefit upon American surgery.
nd 90 wrought steadily for humanity
nd for the alleyia1ion Of human Ills.
there are few If any nobler spheres Of
etion than that OF the surgeon; there are
" II any surgeons in the worlds history
!ho hare done thelr beneRcent work better |;
han Valentine Mott