page_title: Reuben D. Mussey
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Reuben D. Mussey / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Health: Its Friends and Foes, published in 1862.
context_page_description: Reuben Dimond Mussey, Sr. was an American physician, surgeon, vegetarian and an early opponent of tobacco. He was the fourth president of the American Medical Association.
context_section_description: Mussey was born on June 23, 1780 in Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He was of French Huguenot descent, and his father, John Mussey, was also a medical doctor.  Mussey studied at Dartmouth College and then learned medicine under Nathan Smith. He began the practice of medicine in Essex County, Massachusetts. However, he then went to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he did further medical studies, graduating M.D. in 1809. Among his professors at the University of Pennsylvania was Benjamin Rush. Mussey was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1811.
  He then was a professor at the medical school at Dartmouth College and also at Middlebury College, as well as serving as a medical lecturer at other institutions. Mussey is credited as the first surgeon to tie both carotid arteries in 1829. He lectured on anatomy and surgery at Bowdoin College (1831-1835) and Fairfield Academy (1836-1838). He was professor of surgery at the Medical College of Ohio (1838-1952) and was chair of surgery at Miama Medical College in Cincinnati (1852-1857).
  Mussey was an advocate of the temperance movement. In 1828, a temperance society was founded at Dartmouth. In 1850 he served as president of the American Medical Association.
  He was awarded an LL.D from Dartmouth in 1854 and an honorary A. M. in 1806 from Harvard University.
  Mussey died on June 21, 1866 in Boston.
caption: Health: Its Friends and Foes, 1862
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