Mason Fitch Cogswell

Mason Fitch Cogswell (28 September 1761 Canterbury, Connecticut - 10 December 1830 Hartford, Connecticut) was a United States physician.

Biography

He was adopted by Samuel Huntington, president of the Continental Congress and governor of Connecticut, and was graduated valedictorian at Yale in 1780. He studied medicine with his brother James, at the soldiers' hospital in New York City during the American Revolution, and eventually became one of the best known surgeons in the country. He was the first in the United States to remove a cataract from the eye, and to tie the carotid artery (1803). Mainly through his influence the first permanent school for the deaf in North America was founded in Hartford, and his daughter Alice was its first pupil. He was also a founder of the Retreat for the Insane in the same city.

References

•  "Cogswell, Mason Fitch". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. 

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Name	Cogswell, Mason Fitch
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Date of birth	28 September 1761
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Date of death	10 December 1830
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