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Erelong he was made Admitting Physician and Pathologist at the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital. In 18G5 he was chosen Attending 

 Physician of the same, and held the office till his death. 



Seventeen years after leaving college, in 18G3, he was made Assistant 

 Professor in the chair of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the 

 Harvard School. He held this oiRce till I860, when, at the recjuest of 

 the Professor of Clinical Medicine, he was chosen Adjunct Professor 

 in that department, in which, upon the resignation of his superior in 

 18G7, he became Professor. The Corporation of the College, in thus 

 placing our associate in this high position, acted wisely for the institu- 

 tion under its charge. It is believed that the profession fully sustained 

 that selection of one who, during the twenty years since entering upon 

 the study of medicine, had steadily grown in the respect of all as a 

 wise physician, an admirable teacher, and a most honorable man. At 

 the time of his election, no one was so well qualified as he for that 

 professorship. He held it until his death, sixteen years afterwards. 



His influence on students who, year after year, passed through his 

 curriculum, was most beneficent. From his reverence for truth, and 

 his desire to teach them to diagnose diseases scientijically^ he may 

 have seemed ''slow" at times to some. He did not deal in Mowinij 

 assertions of his own opinions or those of others. He sought rather 

 to develop the minds of the pupils, so that they could use them well in 

 their subsequent lives as physicians. I learn from some of his best fiu- 

 pils, that, in this respect, his influence has been of immense advantage to 

 many who are now practising their profession throughout New England. 

 Probably this influence has been felt of late over a wider field ; for, 

 since the great improvements recently made in the administration of 

 the Harvard Medical School, pupils have come to it from all quarters 

 of the Union. He has been called by some a "drill-master " ; and no 

 higher compliment than this expression could be paid to any teacher, 

 if by that " drill " he taught pupils so to grapple with the intricacies of 

 a case that now, as physicians, they can make an accurate " diagnosis 

 sooner and more accurately than those educated in other schools, who 

 have not felt Dr. Ellis's power." In addition to this quality as a 

 teacher, all the students could not hel]} respecting him for various 

 other excellent traits, — he was so honorable, so earnest in giving aid 

 to all, and so kindly in his dealings with the unfortunate patients whom 

 his class met, under his supervision, at the hospital. His example in 

 this latter respect was a perpetual manifestation before them of all of 

 those courtesies and kindnesses which should exist between physician 

 and patient. 



