William Baly

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William Baly
William Baly by John Prescott Knight, 1863

William Baly (1814 – 28 January 1861) was an English physician.

He was born in

St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1859 was appointed "physician extraordinary" to Queen Victoria.[1]

Baly performed significant research on

Goulstonian lecturer on dysentery at the Royal College of Surgeons the same year.[2]

Baly was killed in a railway accident near Wimbledon, southwest of London, on 28 January 1861; he is buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery, London.[3]

Baly was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, which awards a biennial Baly Medal in Physiology, in his name.

Works

  • "Elements of Physiology", (Translation with Notes by William Baly, author: Johannes Peter Muller, translator: William Baly) (2 vols. London, 1838–42)
  • "Diseases in Prisons", Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, (vol. XXVIII, 1845)
  • "Recent Advances in the Physiology of Motion, the Senses, Generation, and Development. Being a Supplement to the 2nd Volume of Professor Muller's Elements of Physiology" (London, 1848)
  • "Reports on Epidemic Cholera" (2 parts) (London, 1854)

References

  1. ^ William Baly. Royal College of Physicians of London (2009)
  2. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  3. ^ BALY, William (1814-1861) and Family. aim25.ac.uk