Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
ORSE,
CALVIN EMORY, M. D., of New York city, was born in Attleboro’,
Mass., on March 15th, 1812. He was the son of Calvin Morse, who deceased
at the ripe age of eighty years -born in Foxboro’, Mass., died at
Cambridge- and of Keziola Richardson, who died at Cambridge -born in
Wrentham, Mass.- at the age of sixty-nine years.Dr. Morse, the subject
of this sketch, received his early education with a view of following
mercantile pursuits ; and in which he engaged for a considerable
time in Boston and Cambridge in the wholesale and retail dry and fancy
goods trade. In 1838, he married a most excellent lady by the name of
Hannah Tufts, who died about four years afterward ; and he married
again, in 1843, a Miss Joanna Wilkins, who is still living ; who,
in her benevolence, volunteered her service in the hospitals, with the
approval of Governor Andrew, Sergeant-General Hammond, and other eminent
men.Possessing a decided
fondness for the study of medicine, while prosecuting his business as a
merchant, he employed all his spare hours in obtaining a knowledge of
the science of medicine, with the ulterior view of engaging in its
practice in the allopathic school. By some providential circumstance,
some of Jahn’s medical works fell in his way, in which he became deeply
interested, and finally converted to the homœopathic faith ; and
he entered with renewed zeal for the mastery of the principles and
doctrines of the new science.He gave up all interest
in merchandizing ; became a pupil of the late Dr. Hoffendahl ;
frequented the Massachusetts Hospital of Boston ; familiarized
himself with the principles and practice of surgery, and finally
matriculated at the Homœopathic Medical College of Philadelphia, from
which he graduated, in 1856. In 1863, he commenced practice in
Philadelphia, but shortly returned to Nashua, N. H., then he removed to
Medway, Mass., afterward residing in Attleboro and Franklin, where he
entered upon an extensive and lucrative practice, embracing a circuit of
fifty or sixty miles. He was offered a chair in the Worcester Eclectic
College, but he felt it to be impossible to accept. He has recently
removed to the city of New York, having retired from the active duties
of his profession. He retains, however, a deep and abiding interest in
the grand truths and the advancement of homœopathy. During his active
career, Dr. Morse, by his eminent skill and his success in the treatment
of disease, thus giving unmistakable evidence of the truth and
efficiency of the Hahnemann theory and practice, awakened so deep an
interest in the minds of many physicians of the allopathic school, that
in his circuit they were led to an acceptance, and to the practice of
the new system.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave