John Elliotson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Elliotson

British medical practitioner and teacher

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1791

Place of Birth: Southwark, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Jul-1868

Profession: physician, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About John Elliotson

  • John Elliotson (29 October 1791 – 29 July 1868), M.D.
  • (Edinburgh, 1810), M.D.(Oxford, 1821), F.R.C.P.(London, 1822), F.R.S.
  • (1829), professor of the principles and practice of medicine at University College London (1832), senior physician to University College Hospital (1834) — and, in concert with William Collins Engledue M.D., the co-editor of The Zoist. Elliotson was a prolific and influential author, a respected teacher, and renowned for his diagnostic skills as a clinician and, especially, his extremely strong prescriptions: "his students said that one should let him diagnose but not treat the patient".He was always at the ‘leading edge’ of his profession: he was one of the first in Britain to use and promote the stethoscope, and one of the first to use acupuncture.

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