The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bartlett, Elisha

​BARTLETT, Elisha, physician, was born at Smithfield, R.I., Oct. 6, 1805. After his graduation from the medical department of Brown university in 1826, he was appointed lecturer on pathological anatomy at the Berkshire medical institution. In 1838 he went to Dartmouth ​college, where for two years he filled the chair of the theory and practice of medicine and pathological anatomy. He was subsequently professor in the Transylvania college, Lexington, Ky., in the University of Maryland, and in the University of New York. In 1852 he was appointed to the chair of materia medica and medical jurisprudence in the College of physicians and surgeons, New York, holding the position until the year of his death. From 1843 to 1852 he lectured at the Vermont medical college. Among his published works are the following: "History, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Typhoid and Typhus Fever" (1842); "History, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Fevers of the United States" (1847); "Inquiry into the Degree of Certainty in Medicine" (1848); "Brief Sketch of the Life of William Charles Wells" (1849); "Discourse on Times, Character, and Writings of Hippocrates" (1852), and "Simple Settings in Verse for Six Portraits and Pictures in Mr. Dicksen's Gallery" (1855). He was also editor of the Monthly Journal of Medical Literature in Lowell. He died in the house in which he was born, July 18, 1855.