ELLIOTSON

John ( eld. son of Thomas Elliotson of 106 High st. South wark, druggist ). b. High st. South wark 24 Oct. 1791; spent 5 years at Univ. of Edin. 1805–10, M.D. 24 June 1810; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1810; spent 3 years at Jesus coll. Cam. 1813–16, M.B. 1816, M.D. 4 July 1821; candidate of R.C.P. 1 Oct. 1821, a fellow 30 Sep. 1822, censor 1825, cons i liar i us 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1824, Lumleian lecturer 1829–30, Harveian orator 1846; a ist. phys. to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817, phys. 1823–34; profe or of medicine at London University 1832 to Dec. 1838; senior phys. to University hospital 1834 to Dec. 1838; began practise of Mesmerism 1837; founded Phrenological Society of London, pres.; founded London Mesmeric infirmary in Weymouth st. 1849; established The Zoist , a journal of cerebral physiology and mesmerism 1844 which ran to 13 vols.; broke up his establishment and quitted his house in Conduit st. 1865; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc.; author of The principles and practice of medicine 1839; Treatise on human physiology , Fifth ed. 1835–40, another ed. 1856 and other books. d. 2 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 29 July 1868. J. Ash burner’s Notes and Studies (1867) 59–68; Medical Circular iv , 403–4, 419–21, 432–3 (1854); Physic and Physicians ii , 273–85 (1839).