MOTT, VALENTINE, LL.D., 1785-1865; b. N. Y . ; graduated in medicine at Columbia college in 1806, and afterwards studied in London and Edinburgh. Ile was appointed professor of surgery in Columbia college in 1809, which place he filled till the medical department of that institution was united with the college of physicians and surgeons in 1813, and for 13 years afterwards. He then, in 1826, with Drs. I losack, Francis, Mitch ill, and others, founded the Rutgers medical college, which, owing to difficulties in regard to its charter was disorganized four years afterwards. He was for several years professor of surgery in the medical department of the university of New Dr. Mott was celebrated as a skillful operator in all branches of operative surgery, but more particularly for the ligature of arteries, in which his experience and success was greater than that of any other (see LIGATURE). He introduced an operation for immobility of
the lower jaw, and in 1821 performed the first operation for osteo-sarcoma of that mem ber. He performed the operation of lithotomy 165 times, and amputated more than 1000 limbs. Sir Astley Cooper said of Min that he had performed more of the gr.'?at operations than any man, living or dead. He visited Europe in 1835, and traveled in England,'on the continent and in the east, publishing an account of his travels in 1812. He was not a voluminous writer, the scalpel being more congenial to his hand than the pen. He, however, found time to translate Velpertu's Operative Surgery (4 vole. 8 vo.) and to furnish several papers or the notes of them for the transactions of the New York acr.demy of medicine. His cliniques were reported by Samuel IV. Francis in 1860.