. Surgical memoirs, and other essays. plint of Desault; he performed internal urethrotomyfor stricture; he employed the seton for ununited frac-tures; he invented the stomach pump for cases ofpoisoning; he bled to depletion preliminary to reduc-ing long-standing dislocations; he was a lithotomist,and at the last, in his terror lest his body be dissected,he provided that the corpse should be guarded formany weeks after his decease. -WEIGHT Post. — After Physick there are two NewYork surgeons, Postand Mott, who are worthy of ourstudy. Motts is the greater name, but Post was thefirst New York sur
. Surgical memoirs, and other essays. plint of Desault; he performed internal urethrotomyfor stricture; he employed the seton for ununited frac-tures; he invented the stomach pump for cases ofpoisoning; he bled to depletion preliminary to reduc-ing long-standing dislocations; he was a lithotomist,and at the last, in his terror lest his body be dissected,he provided that the corpse should be guarded formany weeks after his decease. -WEIGHT Post. — After Physick there are two NewYork surgeons, Postand Mott, who are worthy of ourstudy. Motts is the greater name, but Post was thefirst New York surgeon of eminence in the nineteenthcentury. Wright Post was born in New York in 1766^nine years before the outbreak of the Revolution. Hestudied in London under Sheldon, and six years afterhis return home was appointed professor of surgeryin Columbia University, in 1792, when he was buttwenty-six years old. He taught and practiced forthirty years longer and died in New York in man is notable as a daring operator and skilled. Philip Syng Piiysick AMERICAN SURGERY 79 anatomist. He first, in this country, in 1796, per-formed Hunters operation for aneurism of the femoralartery; in 1817 he hgatured the subclavian artery inits outer third, and in 1813 he ligatured successfullythe external iliac artery — the second operation of itskind to be performed. His name is familiar, and wasfamous among New Yorkers one hundred years ago. Valentine Mott. was nineteen years junior to Post,and lived down to modern times. I know of no manmore famous among New York surgeons. His life isan inspiration to students; but-we have space for thebriefest outline only. He was born on Long Island in1785. He died in 1865, the last year of the Civil his graduation in medicine from Columbia in1806, Mott studied for some years in London, part ofthe time under Astley Cooper, and returned to thiscountry in 1810. He was appointed professor of sur-gery in the Columbia School, and retained the cl
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