THE AMERICAN CYCLOPÆDIA
MOTT
MOTT, Lucretia (Coffin), an American minister of the society of Friends, born in Nantucket, Jan. 3, 1793. In 1804 her parents removed to Boston, where she went to school; subsequently she attended a boarding school in Dutchess co., N. Y., in which when 15 years old she became a teacher. In 1809 she rejoined her parents, who had removed to Philadelphia, and in 1811 married James Mott, who went into partnership with her father. In 1817 she took charge of a school in Philadelphia, and in 1818 began to preach. She travelled through New England, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and a part of Virginia, advocating the tenets of the Friends and speaking against intemperance and slavery. In the division of the society in 1827 she adhered to the Hicksites. She took an active part in the organization of the American anti-slavery society in Philadelphia in 1833, and was a delegate to the world's anti-slavery convention in London in 1840, but, with other woman delegates, was refused membership on account of her sex. She took a prominent part in the first woman's rights convention, held in 1848 at Seneca Falls, N. Y., over which her husband presided; and since then she has been conspicuous in such conventions and in yearly meetings of Friends. She still (1875) resides in Philadelphia.
MOTT, Valentine, an American surgeon, born at Glen Cove, Long Island, Aug. 20, 1785, died in New York, April, 26, 1865. He graduated as M.D. at Columbia college in 1806, and studied in London and Edinburgh. In 1809 he was called to the chair of surgery in Columbia college, which he held till the medical department of that institution was merged in the college of physicians and surgeons in 1813. He withdrew from that school in 1826, and with Dr. Hosack, Dr. Francis, Dr. Mitchill, and others, founded the Rutgers medical college, which, owing to a question about its charter, existed but four years. Subsequently he lectured in New York in the college of physicians and surgeons, and in the university medical college, as professor of surgery and regional anatomy, to which last branch he devoted special attention. His professional reputation is mainly due to his original operations as a surgeon. As early as 1818 Dr. Mott placed a ligature around the brachio-cephalic trunk, or arteria innominata, only two inches from the heart, for aneurism of the right sub-clavian artery, for the first time in the history of surgery. Though all apparent supply of blood vessels was cut off from the right arm, pulsation could be distinctly felt in the radial artery, and the limb presented no evidences of sphacelation. On the 26th day, however, secondary haemorrhage having set in, the life of thee patient was speedily terminated. He successfully removed the entire right clavicle for malignant disease of that bone, where it was necessary to apply 40 ligatures. He was also the first to tie the primitive iliac artery for aneurism. He tied the common carotid 46 times, cut for stone 165 times, and amputated nearly 1,000 limbs. He early introduced an original operation for immobility of the lower jaw, and succeeded after many eminent surgeons had failed. In 1821 he performed the first operation for osteo-sarcoma of the lower jaw. He was the first surgeon who removed the lower jaw for necrosis. Up to an advanced period of life he continued to lecture and practise, He had been elected a member of the principal European medical societies, and made a knight of the fourth order of the Medjidieh of Turkey. Sir Astley Cooper said in regard to Dr. Mott: "He has performed more of the great operations than any man living, or that ever did live." In 1835 he visited Europe for his health, and travelled extensively through England, the continent, and the East. His
