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See also:ELLIOTSON, See also:JOHN (1791-1868) , See also:English physician, was See also:born at See also:Southwark, See also:London, on the 29th of See also:October 1791. He studied See also:medicine first at See also:Edinburgh and then at See also:Cambridge, in both which places he took the degree of M.D., and subsequently in London at St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas's and See also:Guy's hospitars. In 1831 he was elected See also:professor of the principles and practice of physic in London University, and in 1834 he became physician to University See also:College See also:hospital. He was a student of See also:phrenology and mesmerism, and his See also:interest in the latter eventually brought him into collision with the medical See also:committee of the hospital, a circumstance which led him, in See also:December 1838, to resign the offices held by him there and at the university. But he continued the practice of mesmerism, holding seances in his See also:home and editing a See also:magazine, The Zoist, devoted to the subject, and in 1849 he founded a mesmeric hospital. He died in London on the 29th of See also:July 1868. Elliotson was one of the first teachers in London to appreciate the value of clinical lecturing, and one of the earliest among See also:British physicians to See also:advocate the employment of the See also:stethoscope. He wrote a See also:translation of See also:Blumenbach's Institutiones Physiologicae (1817); Cases of the Hydrocyanic or Prussic See also:Acid (182o) ; Lectures on Diseases of the See also:Heart (183o) ; Principles and Practice of Medicine (1839) ; Human See also:Physiology (184o) ; and Surgical Operations in the Mesmeric See also:State without See also:Pain (1843). He was the author of numerous papers in the Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, of which he was at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:president; and he was also a See also:fellow both of the Royal College of Physicians and Royal Society, and founder and president of the Phrenological Society. W. M. See also:Thackeray's Pendennis was dedicated to him.
End of Article: ELLIOTSON, JOHN (1791-1868)
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