He earned a medical degree from Cambridge in 1907, with a thesis titled "The Functions of the Trigeminal Nerve",[2] and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1908.
[6] Morriston Davies was also talented at inventing useful devices for improving the surgical experience, including an innovative anesthetic tube design.
He went on to publish two more texts, Medical and Surgical Treatment of Tuberculosis (1933), and War Injuries of the Chest (1940, co-edited with Robert Coope).
[8] During World War II he was director of North West Thoracic Surgical Services, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, where his responsibilities included training surgeons.
[3] Today there is a Scadding-Morriston Davies Joint Fellowship in Respiratory Medicine, for British medical students interested in the speciality, named partly in his memory.