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John Elliotson. Lithograph after J. Ramsay.

John Elliotson. Lithograph.

Interval : mesmerism and hypnosis.

John Elliotson, M.D. / [William Munk].

The mesmerist : the society doctor who held Victorian London spellbound / Wendy Moore.

Mr. Moscati and John Elliotson, or, The revengeful attack of the Times explained and refuted / by F. de Moscati.

On the recent improvements in the art of distinguishing the various diseases of the heart, being the Lumleyan Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in the year 1829 / By John Elliotson.

The principles and practice of medicine / [John Elliotson] ; edited by Nathaniel Rogers and Alexander Cooper Lee.

Human physiology / By John Elliotson ... With which is incorporated, much of the elementary part of the 'Institutiones physiologicae' of J.F. Blumenbach.

Théorie de la phlogose / de J. Rasori, traduite de l'italien par Sirus Pirondi.

Numerous cases of surgical operations without pain in the mesmeric state; with remarks upon the opposition of many members of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and others to the reception of the inestimable blessings of mesmerism / By John Elliotson.

Mesmerism in India : second half-yearly report of the Calcutta Mesmeric Hospital, from 1st March to 1st September, 1849, containing accounts of formidable and numerous painless surgical operations, and of the successful administration of mesmerism in insanity, and other diseases : to which is added, remarks on the conduct of the English medical journalists, and nearly the whole of the medical profession, in reference to the greatest of medical blessings : with some hints to the public on the employment of mesmerism and on mesmerisers / by Dr. Elliotson.

Human physiology, with which is incorporated much of the elementary part of the Institutiones physiologicae of J.F. Blumenbach.

Cerebral physiology and materialism, with the result of the application of animal magnetism to the cerebral organs, an address... / by W.C. Engledue ; with a letter from Dr. Elliotson, on mesmeric phrenology and materialism.

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Elliotson, John, 1791-1868

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Théorie de la phlogose / de J. Rasori, traduite de l'italien par Sirus Pirondi.

Numerous cases of surgical operations without pain in the mesmeric state; with remarks upon the opposition of many members of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and others to the reception of the inestimable blessings of mesmerism / By John Elliotson.

Human physiology, with which is incorporated much of the elementary part of the Institutiones physiologicae of J.F. Blumenbach.

Cerebral physiology and materialism, with the result of the application of animal magnetism to the cerebral organs, an address... / by W.C. Engledue ; with a letter from Dr. Elliotson, on mesmeric phrenology and materialism.