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ELLIS, Calvin, physician, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1826; died there, 14 December 1883. He was graduated at Harvard in 1846, and at the medical school in 1849, and established himself in practice in Boston. In 1863 he became adjunct professor of the theory and practice of medicine in Harvard, and in 1865 adjunct, and in 1867 regular, professor of clinical medicine, which chair he held till his death. He was for some time attending physician to the Massachusetts general hospital. Among his publications the most important are papers on" Obstruction of Lung, caused by Pressure on the Primary Bronchus" and "The Tendency of Disease in One Part to excite it in Another," and clinical lectures on "Capillary Bronchitis" (1874).
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