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bear upon all occafions, and fupplied him with innumer¬ 
able citations without the trouble of confulting books. 
Few profeffio.nal men have obtained more literary honours. 
He was aggregated to the learned bodies of the Naturae 
Curioforum, the Royal Society of London, the Academy 
of Sciences of Paris, and thofe of Peterfburgh and Ber¬ 
lin, and was one of the firfh aflociates of the Inftitute of 
Bologna. He was vilited by all the learned and the great 
who palled through Padua in their tours, and received 
particular marks of elteem from three fuccelfive popes. 
The moll eminent cotemporary writers in the depart¬ 
ments of medicine and anatomy mentioned him with 
cliftin&ion ; and his native city of Forli placed his bull 
in their public hall during his life-time, with an hono¬ 
rary infcription. He married a lady of family at Forli, 
who brought him fifteen children, eight of whom fur- 
vived him. Bleft with a firm conftitution and good- fpi- 
rits, he retained his faculties nearly to the clofe of a life 
which terminated at the age of eighty-nine years and nine 
months, in December 1771. He left a large property, ac¬ 
quired by his medical praftice and profefiional emolu¬ 
ments, which accumulated during a long courfe of Ita¬ 
lian frugality and fobriety of living. An excels of eco¬ 
nomy was one of the foibles of this eminent man, who 
was, however, kind in the domellic relations of life, as 
•well as in the common intercourfe of fociety. He is alfo 
faid to have laboured under the weaknel's of a belief in 
judicial allrology. 
The principal works of Morgagni are, 1. Adverfaria 
Anatomica, Six Parts, 4-to. fucceffively publilhed from 1706 
to 1719, and colleftively in 1719, at Padua, and afterwards 
at Leyden. Thefe contain a great number of his own 
obl'ervations, and difcoveries in different parts of the hu¬ 
man body, defcribed with much accuracy. 2. Inftitutio- 
num Medicarum Idea, 1712, 4-to. written upon his firlt 
appointment to a medical profelforlhip in Padua, and in¬ 
culcating the bell method of acquiring medical fcience. 
3. Epillolse Anatomicas duas, novas Obfervationes et Ani- 
madverfiones compleftentes, 1728, a-to. edited by Boer- 
haave at Leyden, and chiefly relating to a dil’pute with 
Bianchi on the itrufture of the liver. 4. Epillolte Ana- 
tomicae XVIII. ad Scripta pertinentes celeb. Ant. Mar. 
Vallalvae, 2 vols. 4to. Veil. 1740. Thefe Epillles, which 
are preceded by a life of Valfalva, relate to the fubje&s 
of Valfalva’s works, which are fubjoined, and alfo con¬ 
tain many anatomical and pathological obl'ervations of 
the author’s own. 5. De Sedibus et Caufis Morborum 
per Anatomiamindagatis, Lib. V. Ven. 1760, folio. Patav. 
1763, 2 vols. folio. This great work, publifhed when the 
author had nearly reached his eightieth year, is founded 
upon the Sepulchretum of Bonetus : it contains a great 
number of difiefitions of morbid bodies, made by Valfalva 
anifhimfelf, and digelled according to the regions of the 
body, from the head to the feet. It is a moll valuable 
compilation both in an anatomical and a pathological 
view. 6. Opufcula mil'cellanea, quorum non pauca nunc 
primum prodierunt, Ven. 1763, folio. In thefe are con¬ 
tained his critical epillles concerning Celfus and Serenus 
Sammonicus, firil publilhed in 1704, with various other 
pieces on literary and medical topics. An edition of all 
his works was given at Bafl'ano in 5 vols. 4to. 1765. Eloy 
Diet. HiJl.Med. Halleri Bibl. Anat. fy Med. Gen.Biog. 
MOR'GAN, a diflrift of North Carolina, containing 
the counties of Burke, Wilkes, Rutherford, Lincoln, 
and Butcomb. 
MOR'GAN (Rev. George-Cadogan), whofe father 
was a refpe&able lurgeon at Bridge-end, Glamoi’gan- 
lhire, and his mother the filter of the celebrated Dr. Price, 
was born in 1754. He was intended for the eltablilhed 
church ; but, being diflatisfied with the articles, he en¬ 
tered himfelf as a pupil in the diflenting academy, then 
under the direction of Drs. Savage, Kippis, and Rees. 
In 1776 he fettled as a minilter with a congregation at 
Norwich. Here he refided till 1785, when lie removed 
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to Yarmouth, which he left in the following year, in 
order to join his uncle at Hackney. Here he became 
afternoon-preacher at the Gravel-pit meeting, and lec¬ 
turer at the New College. Thefe offices he refigned 
about 1792, and employed his talents in educating a 
fele6t number of young people in his own houfe. He 
died at Southgate on the 17th of November, 1798, at 
the early age of forty-four, fincerely regretted by all 
who knew him. He had, about four years before his 
deceale, given the world a work in two volumes, entitled 
Lectures on Electricity, which has long fince been out of 
print. He is known alfo by a valuable and important 
paper, communicated in the year 1785 to the Royal 
Society, containing Obfervations and Experiments on the 
Light of Bodies in a Hate of Combullion. This paper 
was publilhed in the 75th volume of the Philofophical 
Tranfaftions. He was an advocate for the principles of 
Stahl, in oppofition to the fyltem of Lavoiiier and the 
French chemifts. He was a man of incefiant application ; 
role very early, and often lludied to a late hour. In the 
purfuit of fcience he was ardent and enthuliaftic. The 
ardour which glowed in his own brealt, he had the happy 
art of infufing into the minds of others. He was a warm 
and Heady friend, and ever ready to afford affiftance to 
thofe who Hood in need of his aid' and friendly coun¬ 
tenance, as numbers now living can tellify. 
MOR'GAN’s, a lettlement in Kentucky : thirty-eight 
miles eall of Lexington. 
MOR'GAN TOW'N, a town of Virginia, on the Mo- 
nonghela river: 220 miles weft-fouth-well of Philadel¬ 
phia. Lat. 39. 39. N. Ion. 79. 58. W. 
MOR'GAN TOW'N, a town of North Carolina: 113 
miles fouth-well of Salem. Lat. 35. 47. N. 
MOR'GAN TOW'N, a town of Louifiana, on the 
Miffiffippi: eighty miles fouth-fouth-well of New Madrid. 
Lat. 35. 30. N. Ion. 90. 27. W. 
MOR'GAN’s TOW'N, a town of Pennfylvania: ten 
miles fouth of Reading. 
MORGANGI'NA, or Morgangi'va, f. [from the 
Sax. mopjsjen, the morning, and ^lpan, to give.] The 
gift on the wedding-day. Dower, or rather dowry. 
MORGA'NIA, f [fo called by Mr. R. Brown, in 
honour of an apothecary named Hugh Morgan, wffio 
flourilhed at London in the days of queen Elizabeth, 
and whofe garden is often mentioned by Lobel and Ge¬ 
rard.] In botany, a genus of the clafs didynamia, order 
angiolpermia, natural order perfonatae, Linn, (fcrophu- 
lariae, Jujf.) Elfential generic charafter—Calyx inferior, 
in five deep equal fegments. Corolla ringent; its upper 
lip two-lobed; lower in three nearly-equal inverfely 
heart-fhaped fegments. Stamens included ; lobes of the 
anthers divaricated, Ample. Stigma of two flat lobes. 
Capfule of two cells, and two deeply-divided valves; 
partition from the indexed margins of the valves. Brown. 
Prodr. Nov floll. i. 441. 
1. Morgania glabra: fmooth. Leaves linear, flightly 
toothed; flalks when in flower nearly as long as the 
calyx ; flowers blue. 2. M. pubefcens : downy. Leaves 
fiomewhat lanceolate, toothed ; llalks when in flower 
fliorter than the calyx. Both fpecies were gathered by 
Mr. Brown in the tropical part of New Holland. He 
conceives them to be fpecifically diftinfl, though very 
nearly related to each other. 
MORGAN'ZA, a town of Pennfylvania ; thirteen 
miles fouth of Pittlburg. 
MORGAR'TEN, a mountain of Swiflerland, in the 
canton of Schweitz, famous on account of a battle fought 
there on the 15th of Oftober, 1315. This battle has 
been compared to the battle of Marathon, which afcer- 
tained the liberties of Greece, and this gave rife to the 
Helvetic union. See the article Helve-tia, vol. ix. p. 370. 
It is ten miles fouth-eall of Zug. 
MOR'GEAZ, or Mor'ges, a town of France, in the 
department of the Dora; twelve miles well of Aolla. 
MOR'GEMOULIN* 
