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| Title |
Obituary - Dr. Edward Reginald Morton 1867-1944 |
| Short Title |
Obituary - Dr. Edward Reginald Morton 1867-1944 |
| Publisher |
British Medical Journal, 19 Feb 1944. Online: https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC2283602&blobtype=pdf |
| Source ID |
S670 |
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E. R. MORTON, M.D.TOR., F.R.C.S.ED.
News has been received of the death in retirement at Gullane,
East Lothian, of Dr. E. Reginald Morton, who in former years
was a leading radiologist in London, holding the post of medical
officer in charge of the electrical department of the London
Hospital and later that of radiologist to the West London
Hospital.
Edward Reginald Morton, son of Edward D. Morton, M.B.,
was born in Barrie, Ontario, on Oct. 14, 1867. He graduated
M.D., C.M. at the University of Toronto in 1890, and took
the Scottish Triple qualification and the D.P.H. in the following
year; in 1893 he became F.R.C.S.Ed. Soon after graduation
he accompanied Lord Brassey on the yacht Sunbeam as medical
officer on a voyage to Australia, and then for a short time
assisted his father in practice. After the discovery of the x rays
by Roentgen, Morton took a keen interest in the medical
possibilities of the new rays and became one of the pioneers
in this country. He was then in general practice at Taunton,
experimenting with x rays in his spare time. His work soon
attracted attention, and in 1904 he moved to London and was
appointed to take charge of the electrical department of the
London Hospital. In 1909 he gave up that post and became
medical officer in charge of the x-ray department of the West
London Hospital and lecturer in radiology at the West London
Postgraduate College. During the last war he acted as
radiologist to No. 2 London General Military Hospital, and
after the armistice he visited Erlangen in Bavaria, where his
friend Prof. Schrumpf had been developing deep x-ray therapy
during the war. On his return Reginald Morton introduced the
new technique to this country. In 1922 he accepted an invitation
to lecture on the subject in the U.S.A. and Canada. He
made an extended tour of both countries and gave many
lectures in Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, and other
cities. On that tour he was accompanied by his old friend
General Fotheringham, R.C.A.M.C.
Morton was a past-president of the Electrotherapeutic Section
of the Royal Society of Medicine and a corresponding
Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Toronto and of the
X-Ray Society of North America. He joined the B.M.A. in
1897, was secretary of the Section of Therapeutics in 1906,
and president of the Eltctrical Section at the Annual Meeting
of 1908. He published Essentials of Medical Electricity an(d
Radiology in 1910, and five years later a Textbook of Radiology,
which reached a second edition. In 1926 he retired to his
summer home at Westbourne, Gullane, where he lived happily
until his death on Jan; 21. |
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Edward D. Morton, M.B.
Dr. Edward Reginald Morton |
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