EL'LIOTSON, Jolt (17'11 ISG'si. An Eng lish physician, born in London and educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge. In 1829 he delivered before the Royal College of Physicians his valu able Lumley lectures on diseases of the heart (published in 1830), and in 1831 he was called to the chair of clinical medicine of London Uni versity. The establishment of the University College Hospital was due chiefly to his influence, and in his practice there he may be said to have been the first to demonstrate the importance of clinical teaching. Auscultation and the use of the stethoscope were also introduced by him. Deeply interested in the study of mesmerism, he established, in 1849, a mesmeric hospital where hypnotic treatment is said to have been success fully applied. He was the founder and first president of the Phrenological Society and presi dent of the Royal Medical Society of London. Besides numerous contributions to periodicals, he published a translation of Blumenbaeh's Ele ments of Physiology (2d ed. 1828).
EL'LIOTT, An Ameri can clergyman. He was born in Ireland, and preached there for two years before emigrating to America in 1815. He was superintendent of missions among the Wyandot Indians; presiding elder of the Ohio district; professor of languages in Madison College (Uniontown, Pa.); presiding elder of the Pittsburg District, and editor of various Methodist periodicals. From 1857 to 1860, and again from 1864 to 1867, he was pro fessor of biblical literature in and president of the Iowa Wesleyan University. His reputation as a scholar rests chiefly upon his Delineation of Roman Catholicism (2 vols., 1841). Among his further publications are: The Great Secession (1852), a history of the division of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844 on account of slavery; and Southwestern Methodism (1868).