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About Thomas Dent Mutter
Thomas Dent Mütter was an American surgeon born in Richmond, Virginia. Orphaned at the age of 8 and raised by a distant relative, he attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (1824) and graduated with an MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1831. Later he eventually took a position as an assistant to Dr. Thomas Harris at the Medical Institute of Jefferson College. At the age of 30, he became the Chair of Surgery at the Jefferson Medical College and held this position from 1841 to 1856, when he resigned because of gout and lung disease.
Everything about Thomas Dent Mutter →- Occupation
- surgeon
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 9, 1811
- Died
- March 19, 1859