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NAME MOTT 829 MOULTRIE General's Catalogue. He translated Velpeau's Operative Surgery, four volumes, and reported many of his own unusual operations. He died of "typho-malarial fever" and gangrene of the left leg, resulting from occlu- sion of the arteries, April 26, 1865, in the eightieth year of his age. The year following his death his widow founded a memorial in the form of a building at No. 64 Madison Avenue containing a library of more than four thousand volumes, open to students and physicians, and memen- toes of Dr. Mott's life, such as instruments, pathological specimens and plates. The Mott Memorial was maintained by Alexander B. Mott for many years and was finally closed in 1909, when the books, instruments and plates were transferred to the New York Academy of Medicine. His son Valentine (1822-1854) graduated M. D. from the University of the City of New York in 1846 and became his father's assistant. While abroad for his health he became identified with the rebellion in Sicily, both as surgeon and as colonel of cavalry. On his return to the United States he was elected professor of surgery in the Baltimore Medical College. While in search of health in California he caught yellow fever and died. Another son was Alexander Brown Mott, a New York surgeon and one of the founders of the Bellevue Medical College. A grandson, son of Alexander Brown, Valentine, was born in New York November 17, 1852, and died in the same city June 20, 1918, of angina pectoris. He studied under Louis Pasteur, after gradu- ating from Bellevue Medical College in 1878, and in 1887 brought home the first rabbit that had been inoculated for the prophylactic treatment of hydrophobia. In consideratioa of his great merit, Valentine Mott received many honorary titles, among them: LL.D., University of the State of New York; fellow of the Medical Societies of Louisiana, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ; fellow of Imperial Academy of Medi- cine, Paris; of the Chirurgical Society of Paris; of the Medical and Chirurgical So- ciety of London; of Brussels; of Kings Col- lege of Physicians, Ireland. Memoirs of Valentine Mott, S. D. Gross, Phila., 1868, with portrait. Eulogy on the late Valentine Mott, A. C. Pott, N. v., 1866, with portrait. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1851, Tol. xliii. Lancet, London, 1865, vol. i. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Phila., 1864, vol. U. Trans. Med. Soc. N. Y., S. B. Gunning, Albany, 1866. N. Y. Evening Post, Jan. 13, 1912. There is also a portrait in the Surg.-General't Library, Wash., D. C. Moultrie, James (1793-1869) Dr. Moultrie was born at Charleston, South Carolina, March 27, 1793, a descendant from Dr. John Moultrie, of Culross, Fife, Scotland, who emigrated to South Carolina prior to 1729. His father was Dr. James Moultrie, a scholar- ly physician. His early education was received at Charleston, South Carolina, and at Ham- mersmith, England. Upon returning to Amer- ica, he began to study medicine with Drs. Barron and Wilson, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1812. He was a member of his state medical so- cieties ; the Societe de Medicine de Marseilles ; Societe Phrenologique de Paris. Dr. Moultrie began to practise in his native city in 1812, but upon the breaking out of the War of 1812, he offered his services and was apointed surgeon in charge of a hospital in Hampstead. On May 22, 1813, he was com- missioned by Gen. Joseph Alston, physician of the port of Charleston. The main energies of his life were spent as a teacher of physiology and in furthering the cause of medical education. As early as 1822 he was in correspondence with Dr. Thomas Cooper (q. v.), president of the South Carolina College, with regard to the founding of a medical college in South Carolina. When the college was finally established at Charleston in 1824 Dr. Moultrie declined a chair upon the ground that, failing to secure an appropria- tion, the venture could not succeed. In 1833 he accepted the chair of physiology under the new charter, a position he held for many years. He was one of the delegates from the Med- ical Society of South Carolina who were sent to Philadelphia in 1847 to join in the organiza- tion of a national medical association. On account of his active work in this connection he was made one of the vice-presidents of the American Medical Association, and in 1851, at the Charleston session, he was elected president. Dr. Moultrie was a man of simple and re- fined tastes, devoted to agriculture, horticul- ture, music and the fine arts. In his special sphere he exhibited profound thought and a high degree of analytical power. As a lecturer he preferred to sacrific beauty of diction to the claims of a minute and detailed presenta- tion of his subject. He married Sarah Louise Shrewsbury, on November 12, 1818, but had no children, and died on May 29, 1869, of "old age" after an illness of only a few hours. His chief publications were : an article on