The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-27

, several years in the study of medicine in
 London and Paris.
 | In the former place she made the ac-
 quaintance of the famous Sir Victor
 Horsely, upon whose advice and intro auctions she went forth to make inves- 1 tigations concerning the 'hubonic plague" For this purpose she visited Ceylon and India, also other parts of ! the far east Her report was published
 in the Johns Hopkins Medical Journal
 and also by the United States government | by which it was distributed among the quarantine officers in Panama and at all Pacific ports.
 | Dr. Morton was a delegate to the Pan
 American Medical congress in Panama and the American Public Health associa-
 tion meeting in Havana.
 She is a professor in the New York Polyclinic Post Graduate Medical school and hospital, and attending surgeon in | the Vanderbilt clinic of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical de- partment of Columbia university.
 i And now that my introduction of Dr. Morton have been made as woman and physician there's still another angle, which this "many-sided" woman reveals, namely, "The Knight Errant
 Neither private practice nor professional honors satisfying Dr. Mortons knight er- | rant soul, she next goes in search of fur ther knowledge of how she may benefit humanity, and we find her spending the summer of 1915 in surgical work in the Grenfell hospitals in Labrador. Then the great world war called her to France, where she sought service with the French army in Macedonia. While waiting for permission from General Sarrall to sail. she gave her services to the French Red Cross in caring for soldiers coming in on hospital trains from the front. She also rendered a blessed service on the French fleet of mercy" a line of hospital ships sailing between Salonica and France. In Serbia, she was assigned to the field
 hospital at Sedes, where with il other
 physicians she helped in caring for the
 2000 sick and wounded soldiers constantly filling it's cots. Among the F physicians two were Polish, two Russian, one Greek and six French. Near Sedes a conva- lescent camp cared for 1900 soldiers who were slowly winning their way back to health. Among these also Dr. Nor tor rendered efficient aid.
 For these and other services, the Ser bian government gave her a commission carrying with it the rank of sergeant major the highest military rank which could be given to a foreign non-com blatant She was also decorated as chevaler of the Order of St. Sava and officially authorized to wear the French doctors military uniform.
 Returning to this country in 1917, pr. Morton was asked by the Medical Wom- ans National association to be the chair man of their war service committee and to organize the American Womens hos pitals. Of these, four in France and one ir Serbia are now caring for the women and children in the devastated districts. The United States government also ap- pointed her to organize for military ser vice the 5000 women physicians in the country. She did this as chairman of the 1 committee of women physicians of the general medical board of the council or national defense.
 One of the tragic stories of the war re- counts the driving out by the Bulgarians of 67, 900 Serbian boys from F to IS years of age With only scraps of food and tattered clothing, this army of boys, to escape a worse fate, fought their way through the winter storms over the AL banian mountains to the Adriatic coast. Six thousand of them came down to the sea shore and are now being cared for by friends of Serbia. In those boys and others like them, pr. Morton sees the possibility of rebuilding that shattered country.
 And now that you are acquainted with pr Morton in her professional and knight errant' capacity, let her tell you some of the things that she has in mind for suffering Serbia.
 For an hour or more she talked about how she started her work and how it had developed through the generous CO., operation of every city she has visited, and this busy woman who moves without apparent haste, but always with system
 and speed, took the time to go over much
 of the ground that she has travele'