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NAME ELLEGOOD 358 ELLIS bia, Medical Society of the District of Colum- bia, 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 sur- vived him. While reputed to be wealthy he died a comparatively poor man, as he lacked business tact and his charitable work knew no bounds. His death was caused by pneu- monia after a short illness of eight days, in 1888. His publications were few; he delivered a a number of introductory and valedictory ad- dresses to students and presented the follow- ing before the Medical Society of the District of Columbia: "Bright's Disease," "Knotted Funis," "Stimulants Hypodermically," "Report of a Large Calculus from a Horse," "Cystic Degeneration of the Thyroid Gland," "Hepatic Abscess," "Amputation of the Finger for Neu- ralgia Following Whitlow," "Excision of the Elbow," "Strangulated Hernia," "Excision of the Inferior Maxilla," "Ovariotomy," "Palato- pharyngeal Sarcoma." The following paper was published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1877, vol. Ixxiii, p, 374: "Simultaneous Ligation of the Carotid and Subclavian Arteries for Aneurysm of the In- nominate Artery." George M. Kober. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Philadelphia, 1884, vel. 1. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1884, vol. ii. J. M. Toner. A portrait is in the Surg.-gen. s Lib., Washing- ton, D. C. Ellegooa, 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 maternal ancestors were of Scotch (Hous- ton) and Welsh (Griffith) origin. His eariy education was acquired at the district schools, and he afterwards spent three years at Laurel Academy, graduating from Pennsylvania Med- ical College in 18.^2 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 married, July 28, 18S8, Elizabeth Cannon, and had three sons, of whom Joshua Atkinson and Robert became doctors. He was a frequent contribu- tor to medical literature, most of his writings having been presented before the State Medical Society. Dr. Ellegood died at Concord, Delaware, March 22, 1902, of erysipelas. H.NNAH M. Thompson. Elliot, George Thomson ( 1827-1871 ). George T. Elliot of New York, scholar, clin- ical teacher, and writer, was born in that city May 11, 1827, the son of George T. and R. G. Elliot. At an early age he attended Mr. Peugnet's school, then entered St. Paul's Col- lege and at the expiration of the sophomore year joined the junior class at Columbia Col- lege where he graduated A. B. in 1845. Sub- sequently receiving an A. M. from Coluiubia, he began the study of medicine under Valen- tine Mott and received his degree of M. D. from the University of the City of New York, in 1849, writing a graduating thesis on "Frac- ture of the Thigh," into which he incorporated notes from his personal experience from a sad accident a few years before. For three years Dr. Elliot studied medicine abroad, passing six months in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital and seven on the Dreadnaught Hospital Ship in London. Thirteen months were spent in Paris and four in Edinburgh. On returning to New York he became resi- dent physician to the New York Lying-in Asylum and subsequently attending physician ; after 1854 he was attending physician to Bellevue Hospital and for six years visiting physician to the Nursery and Child's Hos- pital. For the last ten years of his life he was professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in conjunction with profes- sors Taylor and Barker and consulting sur- geon to the Woman's Hospital in the State of New York. As a didactic lecturer Dr. Elliot took high rank, using the choicest language and having a persuasive eloquence that held his hearers. He contributed many articles to medical liter- ature and toward the close of his life pub- lished (1868) his "Obstetric Clinic," a volume of 458 pages, an epitome of his teaching and practice. Though only forty-four years old at his death he had a large consulting practice. While attending a consultation on a case of thrombosis, June 9, 1870, he had an apoplec- tic seizure, at that time being president of the New York County Medical Society. He died suddenly from an immense cerebral hem- orrhage, January 28, 1871. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Philadelphia, 1871, vol. xxiv, 179-181. S. W. Francis. Med. Record, New York, 1871, vol. v, 574. Ellis, Benjamin (1798-1831). Benjamin Ellis was born in Muncy, Penn- sylvania, May 7, 1798. His father was Wil- liam Ellis, teacher and pioneer settler in Tioga