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fifty-third year. The following paragraphs from obituary 

 notices published upon his decease, but imperfectly express 

 our own higli estimate of his learning and his many personal 

 excellencies. 



Dr Morton was a native of Philadelphia, born in connec- 

 tion, we believe, with the Society of Friends, which has 

 given to it so many citizens distinguished in the walks of 

 science. Adopting the medical profession, which he studied 

 under the auspices of the late Dr Isaac Parish, he received 

 the honours of the doctorate from the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, but afterwards proceeded to Edinburgh, where he 

 graduated again with distinction, highly esteemed tor his 

 literary abilities, as well as his professional proficiency. 

 Young, ardent, with the enthusiasm of a poetical tempera- 

 ment — for poetry was his first ambition — but a manly sense 

 and purpose that enabled him to postpone the imaginative to 

 the solid and useful, he made the tour of Europe, shook hands 

 with warm friends and relatives in Ireland, the land of his 

 ancestors, where strong inducements were offered to retain 

 him, and returned to his native country, and to his native city, 

 here to commence a career which, even at that early moment, 

 he had marked out, and to build up for himself a name not 

 likely soon to be forgotten. It is scarce necessary for us to 

 refer to the success of his professional, or merely medical 

 career. That was always great. For years, no physician in 

 Philadelphia could boast a larger, few an equal, practice. 

 His claims to distinction, in this capacity, were proved by 

 his well-known work on Consumption, and other valuable 

 publications, as well as by his lectures at the Philadelphia 

 Hospital, Pennsylvania College, and other medical institu- 

 tions with which he was at different times connected. 



One would suppose that, with the burden of his heavy 

 practice, and all the addition of these laborious collaterals 

 pressing upon him, he could find but little leisure for other 

 ^pursuits, and indulge but small hope of acquiring fame in a 

 iifierent path. His history is an example of what men can 

 lo, even under adverse circumstances, who are patient, who 

 f^re resolute, who are industrious, who are wise, who are 

 [.rue to themselves, and sufficient to themselves. Ever calm, 



