Thomas morton merrymount
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Thomas George Morton
Thomas George Morton was the son of Samuel George Morton (1799-1851), professor of anatomy at Pennsylvania College. He chose the same career as his father, qualifying as doctor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1856. In 1857 he became head physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital and trained particularly in surgery. Following some years of training in surgery he took an active part in the American civil war, when he distinguished himself as an outstanding operator, but most of all as a hospital administrator. He was the driving force behind several military hospitals, for which he achieved nationwide renown. From 1862 to 1865, with David Hayes Agnew (1818-1892), headed the largest war hospital in the United States, with 500 beds, at Mary Hospital at Philadelphia. From 1859 to 1874 he was a surgeon with the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia (founded 1832).
On November 12, 1861, he married Ann Jenks Kirkbride in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Morton was professor of clinical and operative surgery at the Philadelphia Clinic for Graduates, his lectur
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Biography
- Born August 8, 1835, Philadelphia
- 1856 – Graduated in Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- 1862-1865 Surgeon during the Civil War at Philadelphia’s Satterlee United States Army General Hospital and at the Chestnut Hill United States Army Hospital
- Performed the first appendectomy for correctly diagnosed appendicitis
- Died May 20, 1903 of cholera aged 68
Laparotomy for perforative appendicitis, with removal of the organ, is now an established surgical procedure, and yet so recently has this operation been introduced that I am able to present the patient upon whom I operated in April, 1887, for pericecal abscess with peritonitis, which I believe represents the first successful operation for the removal of the vermiform appendix in a case of this kind, based upon correct diagnosis.
Morton TG, 1890
Medical Eponyms
Morton metatarsalgia (1876)
In 1876 Morton described a series of 15 patients of his own and one of a colleague who all shared the same complaints, which he termed metatarsalgia and which he attributed to an injury to the fourth meta
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Thomas Morton (colonist)
British-American lawyer and social reformer
Not to be confused with Thomas Morton (bishop).
Thomas Morton (c. 1579–1647) was an early colonist in North America from Devon, England. He was a lawyer, writer, and social reformer known for studying American Indian culture, and he founded the colony of Merrymount, located in Quincy, Massachusetts. He is the author of New English Canaan, an anti-Puritan work that was the first book banned the present-day United States.[2]
Biography
Mount Wollaston
Morton took a three-month exploratory trip to America in 1622, but was back in England by early 1623 complaining of intolerance among ruling elements of the Puritan community. He returned in 1624 as a senior partner in a Crown-sponsored trading venture aboard the ship Unity with his associate Captain Wollaston and 30 indentured young men. They began trading for furs on a spit of land belonging to the Algonquian tribes.
Morton immediately began selling liquor and firearms to the Indians, disregarding the laws of Plymouth Colony.
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