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MOTTE

private seminary at Newtown, L.I. ; studied medi- cine under the direction of his relative, Dr. Val- entine Seamen in New York city, 1804-07 ; was graduated at Columbia college, M.D., 1806 ; studied under Sir Astley Cooper in London ; visited St. Thomas's, Bartholomew's and Guy's hospitals, and attended the lectures of Abernethy, Sir Charles Bell and Currie, 1807-08. He com- pleted his medical studies in the University of Edinburgh, 1809-10, and practised in New York city. He delivered a course of lectures on sur- gery in New York In 1810 ; was professor of surgery in the medical department of Columbia college, 1811-13, and after that department be- came the College of Physicians and Surgeons, continued in the chair, 1813-26. He founded with Drs. Hosack, Mitchell, Francis and others, Rutgers Medical college in 1826, and was professor there until the institution closed its doors in 1830. In 1828 he made an excision of the collar bone, in which he tied the jugular vein in two places, and not less than forty arteries, from which the patient completely recovered. This feat was probably without a parallel in the history of sur- gery, and a similar operation was not performed until thirty years later. He was professor of surgery and relative anatomy. College of Physi- cians and Surgeons 1830-65, and made three visits to Europe between 1835-51, to recuperate his health. He visited the hospitals of Paris and while in Constantinople removed a tumor from the head of Sultan Abdul Med j id, who for this service invested him with the order of Med jidieh. He was one of the founders of the medical de- partment of tlie University of the City of New York in 1841 ; was professor of surgery and rela- tive anatomy and president of the faculty, 1841- 53, and professor emeritus, 1852-65. He was a member of the council of the university, 1830-36 ; surgeon to the New York hospital ; senior con- sulting surgeon to Bellevue hospital for fifteen years, and consulting surgeon to St. Luke's, the Hebrew, St. Vincent's and the Women's hospitals at different times. He was a fellow of the Im- perial Academy of Medicine in Paris, the Paris Clinical society ; the Medical Society of London, the London Chirurgical society ; Brussels Clii- rurgical society ; King's and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, and was president of the New York Academy of Medicine for several years and the New York Inebriate asylum at the time of his death. He received the honorary degree M.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1851 and that of LL.D. from the regents of the Univer- sity of the State of New York. His museum of anatomical specimens was destroyed by fire when the building of the New York Medical college was burned. His widow, however, gathered to- gether such other specimens as were left in his

office and these, with 4000 volumes of his medical and surgical works from his library she placed in a building at 64 Madison avenue. This was in- corporated as the Mott Memorial in 1866, and was made free to all medical and other students. He was married in 1818, to Louisa, daughter of Sarah Munns of England. He invented many surgical and obstetrical instruments and advocated con- servative surgery. He left a fund in his will, whereby one gold, one silver and one copper medal were to be awarded annually to three graduates of the New York University Medical college, for the best dried anatomical specimens. He helped to establish the New York Medical and Surgical Record in 1818, contributed to the trans- actions of the New York Academy of Medicine and wrote various papers for the U.S. sanitary com- mission. He supervised Dr. Peter S. Townsend's translation of Velpean's *' Surgical Anatomy," adding several hundred pages of notes and illus- trations and is the author of : " Travels in Europe and the East"' (1842) ; and various addresses, dis- courses and eulogies. See " Memoir of the Life and Character of Mott, Facile Princeps" by Samuel W. Francis (1865) ; " Eulogy on the Late Valentine Mott" by Alfred C. Post (1865), and " Memoir of Valentine Mott " by Samuel D. Gross (1868) . He died in New York city, April 26, 1865.

MOTT, Valentine, physician, was born in New York city, Nov. 17, 1852 ; son of Dr. Alexander Brown and Arabella Upsom (Phelps) Mott. He was graduated at Columbia, A.B., 1872, A.M., 1875 ; Cambridge, England, B.A. 1876 ; Bellevue Hospital Medical college, M.D., 1878. He prac- tised in New York city and attained a wide reputation as a physician and surgeon. He was out-door surgeon, Bellevue hospital, 1879-87, and went to Paris in 1887 as the representative of the American Pasteur institute, where he studied the prophylactic treatment for hydrophobia under Louis Pasteur and brought back to New York the first innoculated rabbit ever taken from Dr. Pasteur's laboratory. He contributed to Amer- ican Medical journals several interesting papers on the subject of Pasteur's discovery. He was m£lrried, April 21, 1892, to Emily Langdon, daugh- ter of Langdon Erving. His medical and sur- gical attainments were recognized by the various professional and learned societies of the United States by electing him to fellowship.

MOTTE, Isaac, delegate, was born probably in Charleston, S.C., Dec. 8, 1738; son of Jacob Motte, Dutch consul at Dublin, Ireland, who emi- grated from Holland to America and settled in South Carolina, where he served as treasurer of the colony. His grandfather, De la Motte, was a French Huguenot refugee, who went to Holland in 1685. Isaac Motte was educated as a soldier, served in Canada in the French and Indian war,