BISSELL, ELMER JEFFERSON – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

ISSELL, ELMER JEFFERSON, Rochester, New York, was born in Vernon, New York, October 31, 1861, the son of
T. J. Bissell, D. D., and Mary J. (Bourne) Bissell. He attended the public schools of Rochester, and later studied medicine in the University of
Michigan, receiving his degree in that celebrated institution in 1883. Dr. Bissell took post-graduate courses in ear and eye hospitals in this country
and Europe. In 1884 he held the position of assistant physician in the ear and eye department in the University of Michigan, and is now ophthalmic and
aural surgeon to the Rochester Homœopathic Hospital. He is ex-president of the American Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King