and soon
afterward formed a partnership with Dr. Daniel Oliver, subsequently a
professor in the Dartmouth Medical College.

"These gentlemen gave popular courses of lectures on Chemistry, in
Salem, with great acceptance. Dr. Mussey remained in this field
between five and six years, and attained a large practice during the
last three years, averaging, it is said, a fraction over three
obstetric cases a week. He had already distinguished himself as a
surgeon, and in the autumn of 1814 he was called to the chair of
Theory and Practice at Dartmouth. He gave in addition a course on
Chemistry, most acceptably to the students, and engaged in an extended
and a laborious practice.

"In 1822, Dr. Mussey was appointed professor of Anatomy and Surgery.
Until the close of the session of 1838, he held this chair, and also
lectured on Materia Medica and Obstetrics, to meet occasional
exigencies in the college.

"In the summer of 1818 he lectured on Chemistry in the college at
Middlebury, Vt. In December, 1829, Dr. Mussey left Hanover for Paris,
where he remained several months. He passed several weeks in London,
visited the great hospitals and museums, both there and in the
provinces, and became acquainted with many distinguished men.

"Not far from this time he was invited to fill the chair of Anatomy
and Surgery at Bowdoin College, which he did for four years in
succession. In 1836 and 1837, Dr. Mussey went to Fairfield, New York,
and gave lectures on surgery at the Medical College in that place.
During the year 1837 a professorship was tendered him in New York
city, Cincinnati, and Nashville, Tennessee. He decided to accept the
call to Cincinnati, and for fourteen years was the leading man in the
Ohio Medical College. He then founded the Miami Medical College,
labored assiduously for its good six years, and then retired from
active professional life, though still retaining all his ardor and
enthusiasm for his chosen profession. At the close of his professorial
duties in 1858, Dr. Mussey removed to Boston, where he spent the
remainder of his life, and died from the infirmities of age, June 21,
1866.

"He had ever been from his youth a consistent, devout Christian, and
his record is without spot or blemish.

"It was as a surgeon that Dr. Mussey came to be most extensively
known. Both as an operative and a scientific surgeon he attained a
national reputation.

"He cared not to make a figure, but to benefit his patient; not t