Egbert Coleby Morland

[3] By means of a scholarship, he studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1897 MRCS and graduated in 1898 MB with the gold medal in physiology.

[4] Morland received the MD (Berne) with thesis Über die klinische Bedeutung der Opsonine[5] in 1907 and, more importantly for his career, the Federal Diploma allowing him to practise medicine in Switzerland.

[4] He practised as a pulmonary specialist in Switzerland for eleven years (1903–1914) first at Davos and then in Arosa,[1] as director of the Villa Gentiana, a sanatorium for English-speaking patients.

To his work as a journalist Morland brought the qualities of a scientist, an artist, and a linguist with an expert knowledge of French and German.

[2]Morland also edited Maternity and Child Welfare: A Monthly Journal for Workers among Mothers and Children from 1917 to 1934.