Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
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- LCCN 5-22470: Meigs, C.D. A memoir of Samuel George Morton, 1851(hdg.: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851)
- LC data base, 11-26-84(hdg.: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851; usage: Samuel George Morton)
- LCCN 39-10146: His Tentamen inaugurale de corporis dolore, 1823(hdg.: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851; usage: S. Georgius Morton, M.D.)
- Wikipedia, June 14, 2010(Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) was an American physician and natural scientist; reared a Quaker but became Episcopalian in midlife; b. in Philadelphia, Pa.; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820; after earning an advanced degree from Edinburgh University in Scotland, he began practice at Philadelphia in 1824; from 1839 to 1843, he was the professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania; his scholarship would sire the scientific racism that fed the defense of slavery in the US)
Samuel George Morton (January 26, 1799 – May 15, 1851) was an American physician, natural scientist, and writer. As one of the early figures of scientific racism, he argued against monogenism, the single creation story of the Bible, instead supporting polygenism, a theory of multiple racial creations. He was a prolific writer of books on various subjects from 1823 to 1851. He wrote Geological Observations in 1828, and both Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the Cretaceous Group of the United States and Illustrations of Pulmonary Consumption in 1834. His first medical essay, on the use of cornine in intermittent fever was published in the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences in 1825. His bibliography includes Hybridity in Animals and Plants (1847), Additional Observation on Hybridity (1851), and An Illustrated System of Human Anatomy (1849).
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