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Dudley Joy Morton
American orthopaedic surgeon, 1884-1960.
Associated eponyms:
Morton's syndrome (Dudley Joy Morton)
A syndrome congenital short first metatarsal, hypermobile first metatarsal segment, and callosities under the second and third metatarsals.
Biography:
Besides his surgical work, Dudley Joy Morton was an enthusiastic paleoanthropologist with a special interest in the importance of the development of the feet and erect walking. He was the first to suggest that Australopithecus should ble classified among hominids.
Bibliography:
- The human foot; its evolution, physiology, and functional disorders.
New York, Columbia university press, 1935. New York, Hafner Pub. Co., 1964.
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