Robert Tuttle Morris

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Robert Tuttle Morris (1857-1945) was an American surgeon and writer, born in Seymour, Conn., and educated at Columbia University. He settled at first in Albany, moved to New York, and became a professor of surgery at the New York Post-graduate Medical School in 1895. He was the author of many books, including:

  • How We Treat Wounds To-Day (1886)
  • Lectures on Appendicitis (1895)
  • Dawn of the Fourth Era of Surgery (1910)
  • Microbes and Men (1918)
  • A Surgeon's Philosophy (1918)
  • Doctors vs. Folks (1918)
  • The Way Out of the War (1918)
  • Nut-Growing (1921)

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