# Valentine Mott

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'''Valentine Mott''' (August 20, 1785{{snd}}April 26, 1865) was an American [surgeon](/source/surgery).

== Life ==
[[File:Dr. Valentine Mott MET ap25.106.11.jpg|thumb|''Dr. Valentine Mott'' by [Anson Dickinson](/source/Anson_Dickinson) (c. 1820)|212x212px]]
Valentine Mott was born at [Glen Cove, New York](/source/Glen_Cove%2C_New_York). He graduated at [Columbia College](/source/Columbia_College_of_Columbia_University), studied under [Sir Astley Cooper](/source/Astley_Cooper) in London, and also spent a winter in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh). After acting as demonstrator of [anatomy](/source/anatomy) he was appointed professor of surgery in Columbia College in 1809. From 1811 to 1834 he was in very extensive practice as a surgeon, and most successful as a teacher and operator.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Mott, Valentine|volume=18|page=930}}</ref>
[[File:Covered Ewer MET 214654(2).jpg|left|thumb|A silver ewer designed for Dr. Mott by [Frederick Marquand](/source/Marquand_and_Co.) in 1827. Now on permanent display at the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art)]]
He tied the [innominate artery](/source/innominate_artery) in 1818; the patient lived twenty-six days. He performed a similar operation on the [carotid](/source/carotid_artery) for the first time in the USA on 20 Sept 1829 before going on to carry out this operation forty-six times with good results; and in 1827 he was also successful in the case of the [common iliac](/source/common_iliac_vein). He is said to have performed one thousand amputations and one hundred and sixty-five [lithotomies](/source/lithotomy).<ref name="EB1911"/>

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](/source/New_York_University_School_of_Medicine). He translated [AALM Velpeau](/source/Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie_Velpeau)'s ''Operative Surgery'', and was foreign associate of the Imperial Academy of Medicine of Paris.<ref name="EB1911"/>

A collection of his correspondence is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/ammp/resources/mott281|title=Valentine Mott Correspondence 1807-1864|publisher=National Library of Medicine}}</ref>

==Family==
In 1849, the same year he was elected President of the [New York Academy of Medicine](/source/New_York_Academy_of_Medicine), Mott and his wife, the former Louisa Dunmore Munn, moved to a four-story Italianate brownstone mansion at #1 [Gramercy Park](/source/Gramercy_Park) West with their large family. The couple had 9 children: 6 sons, including [Alexander Brown Mott](/source/Alexander_B._Mott) (1826–1889), Valentine Mott, Jr. (1822–1854), and [Thaddeus P. Mott](/source/Thaddeus_P._Mott); and 3 daughters, including Louisa Dunmore Mott, who in 1842 married the surgeon [William Holme Van Buren](/source/William_Holme_Van_Buren). A son of Alexander B. Mott, the surgeon Dr. Valentine Mott (1852–1918) studied under Louis Pasteur in Paris and was the first to introduce rabies vaccine into the U.S.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Dr. Valentine Mott Dies Suddenly at Age 65|journal=NY Times |date=June 20, 1918 }}</ref> 

Upon his death in 1865, Mott was interred at [Green-Wood Cemetery](/source/Green-Wood_Cemetery) in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)).

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