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 ELLEGOOD

ELLIS

continued his clinical teachings until his death. In 1S69 the honorary A. M. and in 1S72 that of doctor of pharmacy was conferred on Dr. Eliot by George- town University. He was a member of the Pathological Society, Medical Association of the District of Columbia, Medical Society of the District of Columbia, and president of the latter in 1874.

He married, November, 30, 1850, Mary John, daughter of John Llewellin, Esq., of St. Mary's County, Maryland, who with six children survived him. While reputed to be wealthy he died a comparatively poor man, as he lack- ed business tact and his charitable work knew no bounds. His death was caused by pneumonia after a short illness of eight days in 1S88.

His publications were few; he deliver- ed a number of introductory and vale- dictory addresses to students and pre- sented the following before the Medical Society of the District of Columbia: "Bright's Disease," "Knotted Funis," "Stimulants Hypodermically," "Re- port of a Large Calculus from a Horse," "Cystic Degeneration of the Thyroid Gland," "Hepatic Abscess," "Ampu- tation of the Finger for Neuralgia Follow- ing Whitlow," "Excision of the Elbow," "Strangulated Hernia," "Excision of the Inferior Maxilla." "Ovariotomy," "Palatopharyngeal Sarcoma." The fol- lowing paper was published in the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences," 1S77, vol. Ixxiii p. 374: "Simultaneous Ligation of the Carotid and Subclavian Arteries for Aneurysm of the Innominate Artery."

G. M. K.

Med. and Surg. Reporter, Philadelphia, 1SS4,

vol. 1.

J. Am. M. Assoc, Chicago, 1SS4, vol. ii

(J. M. Toner).

A portrait is in the Surg. -gen. Lib., Wash..

D. C.

Ellegood, Robert Griffith (1829-1902).

Born at Concord, Sussex County, Delaware, March 16, 1829, of ancestry who came from England and settled

in Lynnhaven Parish, Princess Anne County, Virginia, about 1720, his ma- ternal ancestors were of Scotch (Hous- ton) and Welsh (Griffith) origin. His early education was acquired at the district schools and he afterwards spent three years at Laurel Academy, grad- uating from Pennsylvania Medical Col- lege in 1S52 and beginning practice in Concord where his ability won him a position of prominence in the medical profession of the state and country. He was a member of the Delaware State Medical Society, of which he was elected president in 1872. He mar- ried, July 28, 185S, Elizabeth Cannon, and had three sons, of whom Joshua Atkinson and Robert became doctors. He was a frequent contributor to med- ical literature, most of his writings having been presented before the State Medical Society.

Dr. Ellegood died at Concord, Dela- ware, March 22, 1902 of erysipelas. H. M. T.

Ellis, Calvin (1826-1883).

Calvin Ellis, a lineal descendant in the seventh generation of the Ellises who were founders of Dedham in 1634, was born in Boston, August 15, 1826. After a good school education in Boston, Ellis entered Harvard College. where he graduated in the class of 1846. He used to say that during his college life he " played, " and that he first awoke to the full meaning of life when he studied medicine. He grad- uated from the Harvard Medical School in 1849, and the same year was appoint- ed house-pupil at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

After two years in the hospitals of France and Germany, where he devoted the greater part of his time to clinical medicine, morbid anatomy and pathol- ogy, he returned to his native city and became assistant to J. B. S. Jackson, professor of pathological anatomy at the Harvard School. He was also made admitting physician and pathologist to the Massachusetts General Hospital.