Charles Alfred Ballance
Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (* 1856 in Taunton ; † 1936 ) was a British neurosurgeon .
He studied in Germany and at St. Thomas Hospital in London, where he received his Bachelor of Medicine (MB) degree with top marks. He later worked for a long time as a surgeon at St. Thomas. He was also at the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic in Queens Square in London, was an army doctor in Malta (where he became a colonel) and was first surgeon in the Metropolitan Police in London for 14 years.
Ballance was the first surgeon to perform a cross anastomosis (end-to-side anastomosis) of the facial nerves in 1895 (used to treat facial paralysis ). He was one of the first surgeons to perform radical mastoidectomy to treat mastoiditis , and he performed the first complete removal of cerebellar bridge angle tumors . He also carried out a successful treatment of vertigo, which was otherwise untreatable at the time, by cutting the vestibulocochlear nerve .
He also experimented with the development of scar tissue.
In 1933 he received the Lister Medal (his Lister lecture was entitled On Nerve Surgery ).
He was the first president of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. In 1918 he became a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG).
His son Alaric Charles Ballance was also a doctor.
Fonts
- with P. Stewart: The Healing of Nerves. Macmillan, London 1901.
- with Charles David Green: Essays on the surgery of the temporal bone. 2 volumes. Macmillan, 1919.
- with P. Steward: Remarks on the operative treatment of chronic facial palsy of peripheral orgin. In: British Medical Journal. 1903, pp. 1009-1013 (the publication on the anastomosis of the facial nerves)
Web links
- Biography at the HHARP Project as described by his in-house surgeon, John Poynton
- Bibliography on Ballance at History of Plastic Surgery ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Sherrington , Charles Alfred Ballance: On formation of scar-tissue. In: J. Physiol. Volume 10, Oct 1889, pp. 550-576.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ballance, Charles Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British neurosurgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taunton |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1936 |