. Buffalo medical journal. ark presented the same paper before that bodyon Saturday evening, March 15. OBITUARY. Dr. Edward Mott Moore, of Rochester, died at his home inthat city March 3, 1902, aged 88 years. He was born inRahway, N. J., in 1814, of French Huguenot and Englishparentage. His family moved to this city in 1830, and he wasgraduated from the medical school of the University of Penn-sylvania in 1838 and began the practice of medicine in Rochester. Dr. Moore then began a medical and surgical career that wasdestined to make him famous throughout the English speaking 682 OBITUARY. worl
. Buffalo medical journal. ark presented the same paper before that bodyon Saturday evening, March 15. OBITUARY. Dr. Edward Mott Moore, of Rochester, died at his home inthat city March 3, 1902, aged 88 years. He was born inRahway, N. J., in 1814, of French Huguenot and Englishparentage. His family moved to this city in 1830, and he wasgraduated from the medical school of the University of Penn-sylvania in 1838 and began the practice of medicine in Rochester. Dr. Moore then began a medical and surgical career that wasdestined to make him famous throughout the English speaking 682 OBITUARY. world. In 1843. he was elected to the chair of surg-ery in themedical colleg-e at Woodstock, Vt., and in 1858 was chosen pro-fessor of surgical pathologfy in the medical department of theUniversity of Buffalo. In i860, upon the removal of ProfessorFrank Hasting:s Hamilton to New York, Dr. Moore succeededto the chair of principles and practice of surg^ery, in which hecontinued to teach for the next twenty-five years. In i88o*he. (Copyright, Illustrated Buffalo Express, 1902.) EDWARD MOTT MOORE—1814-I902. was appointed president of the state board of health in accor-dance with the law then passed creating: that body. He retiredfrom the chair of surg^ery at Buffalo in 1883, but continued hisservice at the state board of health until some years later. Dr. Moore is best known to the professional world as asurg^eon, and during: his extensive career as a teacher and prac-titioner of the art he contributed many important methods of OBITUARY. 683 dealing^ with injuries, especially as related to fractures of thelong: bones. Conspicuously among: the number may be men-tioned his unique appliance for the treatment of Colless fractureof the radius and his dressings for the fracture of the also was a contributor to medical literature and his mono-gfraphs will stand out with conspicuous prominence as havingradded to the sum of professional knowledg^e. He was president of the Medical
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