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The late Mr. Thomas Morson, chemist, 1874. Creator: Unknown.
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The late Mr. Thomas Morson, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Claudet. 'An eminent scientific and practical chemist, the late Mr. Thomas Newborn Robert Morson, died at his house in Queen-square, Bloomsbury, aged seventy-five. He was born at Stratford-le-Bow, and was apprenticed to an apothecary in Fleet Market; but the study of chemical science, in which he had the companionship of Faraday to assist and to improve his early efforts, proved more attractive to Morson than the medical profession. In the establishment of M. Planche, a pharmacien at Paris, he acquired a high degree of knowledge and skill. On his return to London he succeeded to a business as chemist and druggist in Farringdon-street, where he carried on, with his ordinary trade, experimental researches and inventions of different useful kinds. The first sulphate of quinine made in England and the first morphia were produced in Mr. Morson's laboratory. He was also the inventor of a medicine called "pepsine," designed to aid the nutritive processes for the assimilation of food in cases of diseased spleen and other disorders of the digestive organs. From Farringdon-street he removed to Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, and some time later established a manufactory in Hornsey-road'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.
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