SURGEON AND MAGICIAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 14

SURGEON AND MAGICIAN

Lieut-Colonel R. H. Elliot the distinguished ophthalmic surgeon whose name is known throughout the world as The originator of ''Elliot's operation died suddenly at his home at Barnet recently He collapsed in an armchair 3?after he had retaed/r^ motor-car drive. Lieut-Colonel Elhot, who was seventy, performed the fiist operation of trephining in the heat ment of glaucoma, an eye disease, more Sin twenty years ago The; operation SoT C°S!co?one ai U SAoZ amSme^Hn magic, and foi-seventeen years was chairman of the Occult Committee of the Magic Circle Two vpars ago his committee offered fc^t> for I Performance of the Indian rope trick Hp had himself studied such Series when he was in the Indian Colonel Elliot had been Honorary Consulting Physician at the London Hosmtal for Tropical Diseases, vice-presi-dent S Ethe Institute of Hygiene, and chairman of the executive committee of the British Health Resorts Association He was also an honorary member of many medical societies in America and elsewhere.