The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
health gradually gave way, so much so at last as to induce him to spend a winter in the Southern States, from whence he returned but little benefited.
Of the particulars of Dr. Morgan's life for the two or three years immediately preceding his decease, I have been unable to learn much, though I have had in my possession abundant evidence to show, that in his latter days he was resigned and hopeful, looking forward to another world for that peace which had been refused him here. In a letter to his brother, at Princeton, a few months before his decease, which with many others I have had the privilege of examining, he writes, "Wearied with this world, I have for some time past turned my mind more than ordinarily to the thoughts of a better, where I wish to go, but with resignation to the superior will of Him who has the right to appoint the day and hour." He died in the city of his birth, October 15th, 1789, in the 54th year of his age, and was buried in the ground attached to St. Peter's Church. In the records of the day, there is a bare mention of his death and age, and no stone remains at the present time to point out his last resting-place. So far as I have been able to ascertain, the only notice of him is to be found in the short but grateful tribute which Rush, his friend
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