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Morton, Thomas George

physician, author, was born Aug. 8, 1835, in Philadelphia . He is a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital: an Epitome of Practice from 1756; and Transfusion of Blood and its Practical Application.

MORTON, WILLIAM THOMAS GREEN, dentist, was born Aug. 19, 1819, in Charl- , was born Aug. 19, 1819, in Charlton, Mass. He first discovered the anæsthetic treatment now used by all dentists; and the French Academy of Sciences voted him an award of twenty-five hunfor the application of the discovery for surgical operations. He died July 15, 1868, in New York city.