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MORGAN 815 MORGAN Early in the Civil War Dr. Morehouse served in the Filbert Street Hospital as assistant surgeon under contract. When the Hospital for Nervous Diseases was organized I asked to have him as my colleague. Then Dr. William W. Keen joined us and -we remained in useful co-partnership of labor up to 1865. During our long service he operated often and had the skilful hand, the ready decision of the moment, and the courage which might have made him a surgeon of distinction. 1 recall two instances of his capacity. In one desperate case of paralysis he removed through the mouth a bullet which had lodged in the cervical vertebrae. The patient recov- ered. I saw him trephine the skull and open a cerebral abscess, the first case I believe on record unless one by Detmold preceded it. Dr. Morehouse married Mary Ogden, relict of David C. Ogden, of Woodbury, New Jer- sey. He left no children. Dr. Morehouse became a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1863. He was long on the consultant staff of the Orthopedic Hos- pital; at one time on the staff of St. Joseph's Hospital; a member of the Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Medi- cine, and of the Union League. He died of renal disease on November 12, 1905. S. Weir Mitchell. Trans, of Coll. of Phys. of Phila., 3d Series, vol. .xxviii, pp. lix-lxiii. Morgan, Ethelbert Carroll (1856-1891) Ethelbert C. Morgan was born in Wash- ington, February 11, 1856, the son of Dr. James E. Morgan, one of the oldest physicians in the District. Gonzaga College gave him his preliminary education whence he graduated B. A., June, 1874, Even during boyhood he gave evi- dence of a mechanical turn of mind, prefer- ring to pass his time in building miniature derricks, railway cars, boats, houses, etc., rather than in sports and out-door play; fond also of chemistry, physics and general experi- mentation, spending most of his leisure in a very creditable pharmaceutical and chemical laboratory which he had fitted up at his home. He studied medicine in Georgetown Univer- sity in 1874, 1875 and 1876. In 1876 he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, taking his M. D. there in the spring of 1877. In the same year he visited Europe for the purpose of attending lectures and clinics. He finally became a pupil of the French laryngologist Charles Fauvel and with him took courses in diseases of the upper air passages. In 1878 he left Paris for Vienna, pursuing a similar line of studies and for six months he was assistant to Prof. Schnitzler in the Vienna Polyclinic. In 1878 he returned to his native city and for the first two years practised general medicine, but devoted most of his attention to affec- tions of the air passages and ear to which class of diseases he finally limited his prac- tice in 1881. In the same year he was elected surgeon in charge of diseases of the nose, throat and chest in Providence Hospital and professor of laryngology in the medical department of Georgetown University, posi- tions which he held until death. His were the first lectures on laryngology ever deliv- ered in the regular session of any medical school in Washington. In 1881 he was elected a member of the American Laryngological Association ; his inaugural thesis "Diph- thonia," a paper which, together with his clas- sical monograph on "Uvular Hemorrhage" gained for him a most enviable reputation among his fellow members. In 1888 he was elected president. He held a number of positions in the Medical Association and the Medical Society of the District of Colum- bia. In 1888 Georgetown University con- ferred upon him the degree of Ph. D. A versatile and clear writer, his scientific work was thorough and of permanent value and he contributed to "Buck's Reference Hand Book" and "Keating's Encyclopedia of Diseases of Children," having prepared the article on "Ozena, Carcinoma, and Sarcoma of the Larynx" for the former and articles on "Epistaxis" in the latter. He was the inventor of a very efficient uvula hemostatic clamp, an atomizer and universal powder blower. But thirty-five when he died, few men of his age attained greater distinction or a larger measure of success. His success was due to individual merit, scientific attainments, a tliorough training, earnest and honest work coupled with unusual professional and business tact and unswerv- ing loyalty to his patients. The writer, although six years his senior, profited by his philosophical mind on more than one occa- sion, especially when he informed him "If you want good advice go to friends, if you want to borrow money go to strangers, if you want nothing go to your relatives." He was unmarried and accumulated a for- tune, a large part of which he left, with char- acteristic generosity, for the endowment of scholarships and research work in the literary and medical department of Georgetown Uni- versity.