(MEDICINE) MOTT VALENTINE Autograph Letter Signed

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(MEDICINE.) MOTT, VALENTINE. Autograph Letter Signed, to Dr. R. Harlan, giving a lengthy account of the New York College of Physicians. 3 pages, folded 4to sheet; minor browning, separations at folds repaired with labels on the address leaf. With another document relating to Mott. New York, 15 January 1820

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" . . . Our students were never more respectable and correct in their deportment and I am sure I can say from what I have observed a great degree of satisfaction prevails among them -- with a steady perserverance in our several departments there is good ground for believing that our University will in time become useful to the country, reputable to the State, and profitable to the Professors . . . It cannot be expected by reasonable men that our school will rival your University [of Pennsylvania], whose fame has long since been established and will in all probability long continue to maintain the ascendancy . . ."
Mott (1785-1865), American physician and pioneer in vascular surgery, helped establish the New York College of Physicians and was the first American surgeon to perform ligations of various arteries for the treatment of aneurysmal disease.