Valentine Mott

Surgeon, born in Glen Cove, New York, USA. After taking his medical degree from Columbia University and studying surgery in Britain, he opened a practice in New York City (1809) and was associated with various colleges. Rapid, skillful, and ambidextrous, he pioneered various circulatory surgeries and procedures, and he became known internationally as a bold, innovative surgeon. He did not write any major works, but bequeathed his substantial library and a surgical and pathological museum to the New York medical profession.

Valentine Mott (August 20, 1785 - April 26, 1865), American surgeon, was born at Glen Cove, New York.

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.

He tied the innominate artery in 1818;

After spending seven years in Europe (1834-1841) Mott returned to New York where he was on the founding faculty of the university medical college of New York, now New York University School of Medicine.

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