E. H. CARLETON DIES; EYE SPECIALIST, 83
One-Armed Surgeon Retired as Professor of Ophtalmology After 53 Years at Dartmouth.– Special to The New York Times
HANOVER, N. H., June 1, 1952—
Dr. Elmer H. Carleton, retired eye, ear, nose an throat surgeon and former professor of ophtalmology at the Dartmouth Eye Institute, died here today at the age of 83. He had been confined to the college infirmary for serveral months after suffering a stroke.
Dr. Carleton, who learned to operate with his left hand after he had lost his right arm as the result of a surgical infection, was one of the leading medical figures in the state. He was a past president of the New Hampshire Surgical College which he had served for five years as secretary.
During his 53-year association with Darmouth College, he was director of the gymnasium and instructor in physical culture, clinical instructor in otolaryngology and ophtalmology and instrocutor in anatomy at the medical school.
In 1932, he joined the staff of the Eye Institue, serving for five years as research clinician, and from 1937 to 1946 as professor of ophtalmology.
Dr. Carleton, who was graduated in 1893 from Bowdoin, received his M.D. degree at Dartmouth in 1987, after which he pursued eye, ear, nose an throat studies in Vienna and London for a year. He was president of the Dartmouth Medical School Alumni from 1916 to 1923 and also served on the Dartmouth Athletic Coucil. Bowdoin conferred an honorary Doctor of Science upon him in 1939. He leaves his wife, the former Louise Porter; a son, John P. Carleton, an attorney in Manchester, N. H., and three grandchildren.
— The New York Times, 1 Jun 1952