perfect,
and the case was, we believe, the first recorded instance where both
carotids were successfully tied. This operation gave him great fame
both at home and abroad.

"It is not my purpose to attempt an account of the surgery done by
this eminent man, only to touch on some of its salient points. Thus he
successfully removed an ovarian tumor, at a time when the operation
had been done only a few times in the world. He removed a boy's tongue
which measured eight inches in circumference, and projected five
inches beyond the jaws, and the patient recovered.

"He removed the scapula and a large part of the clavicle at one
operation, from a patient on whom he had amputated previously at the
shoulder-joint. Dr. Mussey supposed that this was the first operation
of the kind [as it was in some respects] in the history of Surgery.

"He several times removed the upper, and portions of the lower, jaw.
Dr. Mussey kept no extended records of his operations, but I subjoin a
few statements alike interesting to us and creditable to him.

"He performed the operation of lithotomy forty-nine times, and all the
patients recovered but four. He operated for strangulated hernia forty
times, and with a fatal result in only eight cases. He practiced
subcutaneous deligation in forty cases of varicocele, and all were
successful. Dr. Mussey operated four times for perineal fistula, twice
for impermeable stricture of the urethra, and did a large number of
plastic operations with the best results. He also successfully treated
a recto-vaginal fistula.

"These are only a fraction of the innumerable operations which he did,
yet they show results such as the greatest surgeons in the world would
be proud to declare.

"But it is not alone as a surgeon that Dr. Mussey attained excellence.
It was as an accurate observer that he early made himself known to the
medical world. The habit of his mind was positive; he respected
authority, and to the latest period of his life was assiduous in
acquiring professional knowledge from books no less than from
observation. He delighted to fortify himself in any given position by
citing authorities, and always showed that he had informed himself
exhaustively in the bibliography of the subject. Yet it was his habit
to subject every medical statement to the most rigid tests. While
pursuing his studies in Philadelphia, he joined issue with Dr. Rush on
some of the physiological doctrines which were generally receive