Show skill of old time surgeon of 0 the skill in surgery of 0 dr valentine mott I 1 it t Is r recorded that in 1828 he performed what ahat Is universally allowed to be the most difficult feat ever attempted I 1 in a bur surgery gery A clergyman an was aga aal afflicted isted with an enormous tumor I 1 in n the neck in which aich were Im bedded and twisted many of the great arteries in removing the tumor it nas age necessary to take out entire one of 0 the collar bones to lay barn bare the membrane inclosing the lungi lung to dissect around arteries displaced by the tumor and im bedded in it to apply 15 ligatures and remove an immense mass ot of diseased matter all this was done without the aid of 0 chloroform the patient survived the operation and many years afterward continued to discharge the duties of his profession |