208  Obituary.  {AYP°r!t  mf"* 
Half  Yearly  Abstract  of  the  Medical  Sciences.  Edited  by  William  Domett 
Stone.  M.  D.  Vol.  Iviii,  January,  1873.  Philadelphia:  Henry  C.  Lea.  8vo,. 
pp.  296.    Price,  S2  50  a  year. 
The  editor  of  the  last  named  work,  which  has  been  published  for  a  period  of 
29  years,  announces  that  it  will  be  discontinued  :  but  the  American  publisher 
has  made  arrangements  for  supplying  a  semi  annual  digest  of  the  improvements 
and  discoveries  in  the  medical  sciences. 
Changes  of  Temperature  and  Pulse  in  Yellow  Fever.  By  Joseph  Jones,  M.D., 
Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Clinical  Medicine  University  of  Louisiana.  Louis- 
ville, 1873. 
A  reprint  from  the  American  Practioner.  The  results  of  the  author's  inves- 
tigations are  summed  up  in  the  following  concluding  sentence  of  his  essay. 
"It  is  evident,  therefore,  that  the  cause  of  the  rapid  rise  and  sudden  decline 
of  the  temperature  in  yellow  fever  must  be  sought  chiefly  in  the  changes  in- 
duced by  the  febrile  poison  in  the  blood,  and  in  those  organs,  as  the  heart,  liver 
and  kidneys,  upon  which  the  circulation  and  integrity  of  the  blood  depends.'* 
OBITUARY. 
Thomas  Newborn  Robert  Morson  was  born  at  Stratford  le-Bow,  London, 
and  having  lost  his  parents  while  yet  young,  and  being  then  left  without  a 
guardian  or  family  connections,  was  thrown  to  a  great  extent  upon  his  own  re- 
sources; but  he  overcame  all  difficulties  of  his  early  life,  became  the  founder  of 
a  widely  known  and  well  reputed  business,  and  the  personal  friend  of  many  of 
the  leading  scientists  and  artists  of  his  time. 
At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  was  apprenticed  to  an  apothecary  in  Fleet  Market, 
(now  Farringdon  Street),  and  went  afterwards  to  Paris,  to  the  establishment  of 
M  Planche,  where  he  lived  for  several  years.  On  his  return  to  England,  he 
established  himself  in  business  in  the  house  where  he  had  been  apprenticed  ; 
and  here  the  sulphates  of  quinia  and  of  morphia  were  for  the  first  time  manu- 
factured in  England,  and  sold  to  the  wholesale  trade  at  8  shillings  a  drachm 
for  quinia,  and  18  shillings  for  the  same  weight  of  morphia  salt.  He  subse- 
quently moved  to  Southampton  Row  and  afterwards  built  a  laboratory  in 
Hornsey  Road  for  the  manufacture  of  chemicals,  &c. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders,  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Council,  four 
years  Vice-  President,  and  three  years  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society 
of  Great  Britain,  from  the  Council  of  which  he  retired  in  1870.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  the  publication  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal,  and  articles  pre- 
pared lor  publication  were  frequently  seasoned,  to  use  an  expression  of  Mr. 
Bell's,  with  the  "  Attic  salt"  from  Southampton  Row. 
Mr.  Morson  was  a  man  of  enlarged  mind  and  cultivated  intellect  and  his 
house  was  a  place  of  resort  for  men  of  genius  who,  on  Sunday  evenings>  found 
ample  scope  for  the  discussion  of  their  favorite  topics  in  his  company. 
In  the  early  part  of  January  last,  he  had  an  attack  of  paralysis,  from  which 
he  did  not  recover;  he  died  at  his  residence  on  Queen  Street,  Bloorasbury,  on. 
he  third  day  of  March,  in  the  seventy-  fifth  year  of  his  age. 
