Valentine Mott, American Surgeon

Valentine Mott (1785-1865), American surgeon. 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. Mott rwas on the founding faculty of the university medical college of New York, now New York University School of Medicine

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