Professor Robert Henry Elliot FRCS (23 August 1864 – 9 November 1936) was a British ophthalmic surgeon and author, an expert on snake venom and on Indian magic.
[1] Born on 23 August 1864, Robert Elliot was educated at Bedford School and at the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital.
[4] He was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, between 1916 and 1917, and Chairman of the Naval and Military Committee of the British Medical Association, between 1917 and 1922.
[5] In 1919 he was appointed as lecturer in Ophthalmology at the London School of Tropical Medicine, and as ophthalmic surgeon at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
He declared that there is nothing in Indian medicine which is unknown in Europe and he considered that such phenomena as transfixion of the tongue and neck are anatomically possible.