Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., professor of surgery in the University of the city of New York : member of the Institute of France / by S. D. Gross.

  • Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1805-1884.
Date:
1868
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    in 1805, with a number of his countrymen, sought an asylum in the United States after the unsuc- cessful attempt of Robert Emmet and his asso- ciates to shake off the British yoke which had so long and so heavily oppressed them. He was a graceful lecturer, an accomplished classical scho- lar, an ardent patriot, and an upright, estimable man. He was the author of a number of scien- tific papers and political tracts, was one of the edi- tors of the “New York Medical and Philosophical Journal,” was a great lover of books, and spoke, it is asserted, German and French with as much ♦ fluency as English. He expired at New York on the 12th of July, 1841, in the eightieth year of his age, universally regretted by all who knew him. Dr. John D. Godman, a native of Maryland, and early in life a printer by occupation, was Mott's associate in the new college enterprise only for two sessions. Long before the termination of the second course of lectures it was evident that the labor was too severe for the endurance of his bodily powers, and he was accordingly obliged to resign his chair, and to seek relaxation and health in a more genial climate. He spent several months in the West Indies, but without any material benefit, and finally, on his return, settled at Germantown, Pennsylvania, where, under the hospitable roof of a kind friend, he eked out the remnant of his days.