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state university Medical institute Department of History Course Paper in History of Medicine Richard Morton
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the first to state that tubercles were always present in

the tuberculosis disease of the lungs.
In Morton's time, this wasting disease was termed consumption, or by its Greek name of phthisis.
Recognition of the many possible symptoms of this infection belonging to a single disease was not until the 1820s and it was J.L.
Schönlein in 1839 who introduced the term "tuberculosis".

Oxford's Magdalen Hall, elected to enter the Church, becoming Vicar

of Kinver in Staffordshire.
With his refusal to acquiesce to the Act of Uniformity 1662 following the Restoration of Charles II, he was forced to resign.
His whereabouts for the following eight years are unclear, although he probably travelled to Holland.
Reappearing in 1670, he was awarded doctorate of medicine by Oxford University.

Totumque opus variis histories illustratum was published in Latin in

1689, with an English translation appearing in 1694.
A second English edition was published in 1720.
Its significance is partly due to the disease receiving little study by other doctors of the time despite it being a major cause of death; accounting for over 18% all deaths in the City of London in 1700.
Medicine of that time was deferential to the ideas of Galen and so Morton understandably mistook tubercles for being caused by glandular degenerations; mycobacterium tuberculosis not being identified until 1882 by Robert Koch.
The paper is also significant in that it also contains the first recognised medical descriptions of the wasting condition now known as Anorexia Nervosa.

the College of Physicians, published his magnum opus, Phthisiologia, seu

Exercitationes de Phthisi.
In this seminal volume, translated into English five years later and subtitled A Treatise of Consumptions,2 he outlined in painstaking detail the many disease processes that cause wasting of body tissues.
All of the material was based on his own clinical observations, with little reference to books.
The text, which is richly descriptive, is best known for his comments on tuberculosis.

disease, he was the first physician to state that tubercles

are always present in the pulmonary form.
Morton is best known today as the author of the first medical account of anorexia nervosa,5 a condition that he referred to as "a Nervous Consumption" caused by "Sadness and Anxious Cares."
The clinical description, printed in its entirety, is as