Josiah Clark Nott
1804–73
American physician and racial theorist. Practised medicine in Columbia, South Carolina, 1829–35; in Mobile, Alabama, 1836–57. Professor of anatomy, University of Louisiana, 1857–8. Helped to found a medical school in Mobile in 1859 and was appointed professor of surgery. Wrote extensively on scientific subjects including yellow fever, surgery, hypnotism, and ethnology.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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