An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

ELLIOTSON, John

4 entries
  • 5153

On the glanders in the human subject.

Med.-chir. Trans., 16, 171-218; 18, 201-07, 1830, 1833.

Proof that glanders in the horse is communicable to man.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Glanders
  • 2584

Hay fever.

Lond. med. Gaz., 8, 411-16; 12, 164-71, 1831, 18321833.

Elliotson was the first to ascertain that pollen was the cause of hay fever.

 



Subjects: ALLERGY
  • 5650.2

Numerous cases of surgical operation without pain in the mesmeric state.

London: Hippolyte Baillière, 1843.

Elliotson was one of the first in England to perform surgical operations with the aid of hypnotism. He was a great friend of Dickens and Thackeray, but his views on hypnotism were bitterly opposed by Thomas Wakley, editor of the Lancet, whose onslaughts eventually led to his downfall.



Subjects: ANESTHESIA › Hypnosis (Mesmerism)
  • 9256

The Zoist: A journal of cerebral physiology & mesmerism, and their applications to human welfare. Edited by John Elliotson. 13 vols.

London: Hippolyte Baillière, 18431856.

The most comprehensive source about British mesmerism of the period, and an invaluable reference for contemporary ideas and developments not only in mesmerism (hypnosis) but also in phrenology, neurology and psychiatry. “It was round The Zoist, and hence of course round Elliotson, that British mesmerism centered during its period of most active expansion, from 1843 until the early 1850s.... More serious and more educated adherents subscribed, contributed and sent in cases; interested outsiders turned to it to find out more.... Setting aside articles on phrenology, mesmeric cures of disease fill the greatest percentage of its pages, followed by cases of surgical operations performed with mesmeric anesthesia” (Gault, A history of hypnotism, 207-208). One of the most prolific contributors to the journal was Scottish surgeon James Esdaile, who performed over a hundred painless operations on mesmerized patients in the 1840s while stationed in India; a partial list of these operations, including the amputation of an arm and breast and the removal of 17 scrotal tumors, is included in the 1846 volume of The Zoist. Digital facsimiles of all volumes are available from Google Books. The link to vol.1 is here.



Subjects: ALTERNATIVE, Complimentary & Pseudomedicine › Phrenology, Mesmerism, NEUROLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOTHERAPY › Hypnosis