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JAMA. 1970;212(12):2116.

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John P. Mettauer, son of an Alsatian surgeon who came to America under Rochambeau, subsequently settled near Farmville in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Young Mettauer began his education in the secondary schools followed by higher learning in the college of Hampden-Sydney. In 1807, he began the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.¹ Shippen, Rush, Wistar, and Physick were members of the faculty which awarded him the MD degree in 1809. Mettauer returned to Prince Edward County to practice and to remain until his death, except for duty in the War of 1812 and a short period of time spent as professor of surgery at Washington Medical College, Baltimore.

Mettauer was a bold, original, and resourceful surgeon who attracted patients from many parts of the United States to his provincial practice and country hospital. Notable among his operations, which numbered in the hundreds, included cataract, stricture of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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