Edward Mott Moore

Edward Mott Moore

Edward Mott Moore (1814-1902) was an American surgeon, born at Rahway, New Jersey He received his medical education in New York City and in Philadelphia (M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1838). His family had settled in Rochester, N. Y., and it was there that he made his permanent residence. With the title of professor of surgery, he gave lectures medical colleges - at Woodstock, Vt. (1842-1854), at Berkshire, Mass. (1855), at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Oh. (1857), and at Buffalo Medical College (1859-83). He was president of the New York State Medical Society (1874), of which society he was one of the founders, of the American Surgical Association (1883), and of the American Medical Association (1890). For many years he was president of the board of trustees of the University of Rochester, and he is remembered as the "father" of the Rochester park system.

Eponymous ailment

"Moore's fracture" - fracture of the lower end of the radius with dislocation of the head of the ulna and imprisonment of the styloid process beneath the annular ligaments. (The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1938)

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