Samuel George Morton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel George Morton

American physician and naturalist (1799–1851)

Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1799

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 15-May-1851

Profession: naturalist, physician, biologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Samuel George Morton (January 26, 1799 – May 15, 1851) was an American physician, natural scientist, and writer who argued against the single creation story of the Bible, monogenism, instead supporting a theory of multiple racial creations, polygenism.
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 user of cornine in intermittent fever, in 1825 was published in the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences.
His bibliography includes Hybridity in Animals and Plants (1847), Additional Observation on Hybridity (1851), and An Illustrated System of Human Anatomy (1849).