The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
efficientes quae virtute quadam secretoria, pus e sanguine eliciunt."[1]
From Edinburgh, Dr. Morgan proceeded to Paris, where he passed a winter in the study of Anatomy, and while there submitted to the Royal Academy of Surgery a memoir on "Suppuration," which was well received, and afterwards exhibited to the same body a number of preparations made by injection and corrosion. This art, which he had learned from the Hunters, was, he informs us, "allowed to be new to them." None of the members present, except M. Morand, who had been in England, and acquainted with Mr. Hunter, having ever seen similar preparations. At their request he
- ↑ That he was the first to announce this doctrine there can be no doubt. The claim to it has been usually awarded to John Hunter; but Mr. Curry, a teacher of anatomy of Guy's Hospital in 1817, after most careful investigation, has adjudged it to Dr. Morgan, who, he says, "discussed the question in his Inaugural Discourse with great ingenuity, and I can find no proof that Hunter taught, or even adopted such an opinion until a considerably later period." (Lond. Med. and Phys. Journ., vol. xxxviii., 1817.) The various views which have prevailed on the origin and formation of pus since that period, form a curious study, and now, after more than a century, Cohnheim (Virchow's Archiv, vol. xxxviii.) has demonstrated that the white corpuscles do actually escape from the intact vessels, and contribute, to a considerable extent, to the formation of pus.
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