. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . Middlebury college. He contributed to the Biblical Repository and other religious periodi-cals, and, besides various pamphlets, addresses, andsermons, was the author of The Skeptical Era inModern History (New York. 1856). POST, Wright, surgeon, b. in North Hemp-stead, N. Y., 19 Feb., 1766; d. in Throgs Neck,N. Y., 14 June, 1828. He studied medicine underDr. Richard Bayley, and then for two years underDr. John Sheldon in London. On his return in1786 he began to practise in New York, and in 1787delivered lectures on anatomy at the New Yorkh
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . Middlebury college. He contributed to the Biblical Repository and other religious periodi-cals, and, besides various pamphlets, addresses, andsermons, was the author of The Skeptical Era inModern History (New York. 1856). POST, Wright, surgeon, b. in North Hemp-stead, N. Y., 19 Feb., 1766; d. in Throgs Neck,N. Y., 14 June, 1828. He studied medicine underDr. Richard Bayley, and then for two years underDr. John Sheldon in London. On his return in1786 he began to practise in New York, and in 1787delivered lectures on anatomy at the New Yorkhospital. These efforts were interrupted by thedoctors mob, which broke into the building anddestroyed the valuable anatomical specimens thathad been collected. In 17112 he was appointedprofessor of surgery in the medical department of(..hiMibia college, and he then visited the greatschools of Europe, collecting n splendid anatomicalraliitiit, and returning to New York in 1793, afterwhich he held the chair of anatomy until 1813. POST POTANOU 85. V Dr. Post took rank as one of the ablest of operativesurgeons, and his skill gained for him celebrityboth at home and abroad. He was the first in theUnited States to perform an operation for a case of false aneurismof the femoral ar-tery. Subsequent-ly he operated intwo eases for caro-tid aneurism, andin all three caseswas of his great-est feats was the • TV ~^I1& successful opera- Jr\W^3fvL tion of ^ilaS the ^*?lf;\Vj7 V subclavian artery above the clavicleon the scapularside of the scalenemuscles for brach-ial aneurism situ-ated so high in theaxilla as to makeit inexpedient totie this artery. The accomplishment of this oper-ation was especially noteworthy from the fact thatDr. John Abernethy, Sir Astley Cooper, and otherEnglish surgeons had been unsuccessful in its per-formance. In 1813, on the union of the medicalfaculty of Columbia and that of the College ofphysicians and surgeons. Dr. Post was appointedprofessor of
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