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He married Elizabeth Campbell Lee in 1880.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>
From 1882 to 1885, he was adjunct professor of nervous diseases at the [[New York Post-Graduate Medical School]], served as neurologist to the [[New York Infant Asylum]],<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkinfantasy1884newy/page/5/mode/1up?view=theater |title=Twelfth Annual Report of the New York Infant Asylum (1884) |publisher=New York Infant Asylum |year=1885 |location=New York City |pages=5 (Medical Staff), 16 |language=English}}</ref> 1887–90, and was afterward professor of nervous diseases and electrotherapeutics at the New York Post-Graduate School.
As an authority in electrotherapeutics he won wide recognition, and by his mechanical device for establishing the "static induced current" of electricity – the "Morton current" of the scientific world – supplied a means for producing the [[x-ray]], a service of great practical value to medicine and surgery.
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