Lionel Smith Beale

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Lionel Smith Beale

Lionel Smith Beale (born February 5, 1828 in London , † March 28, 1906 there ) was a British doctor and microscopist. He is considered a pioneer in clinical pathology .

Live and act

Lionel Smith Beale was the only son of Lionel John Beale (1796–1871) and his Frances Smith, nee Sheppard (1800–1849). He had three sisters, including the artist Sarah Sophia Beale (1837-1920) and the landscape painter Ellen Brooker Beale (married Lloyd, 1831-1900). After attending Highgate School , Beale was taught at King's College School from the age of nine until 1844 . From the age of 13 he also started an apprenticeship with the pharmacist Joseph Ross from Islington . In 1845 Beale began studying medicine at King's College London and was enrolled at the University of London two years later . For two years he worked as assistant to Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900) at the Anatomical Museum of Christ Church . In 1849 Beale received his license from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries . For the Board of Health , he supervised in the same year the cholera - epidemic in Windsor. From 1850 to 1851 Beale worked as an assistant doctor at King's College Hospital and finally graduated as Medicinae Baccalaureus in 1851 .

In 1852 Beale set up a private laboratory near the hospital on Carey Street, where he taught novel methods of using microscopy in pathology . The following year he succeeded Robert Bentley Todd in the chair of physiology at King's College, where he shared duties with Todd's former assistant William Bowman for the first two years . He held this position until 1869. In 1859 he married Frances Blakiston († 1892), the only daughter of Reverend Peyton Blakiston (1801-1878). From 1857 to 1870 Beale published the journal Archives of Medicine . He later became a doctor at King's College Hospital and was appointed professor of medicine there in 1876. Beale held both positions until his illness-related retirement in 1896. From 1891 to 1904 he worked as a doctor for the Pensions Commutation Board and as a medical examiner for the government. Beale also prepared numerous reports for the Clerical and Medical Assurance Company .

Honors and memberships

Beale was elected a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1856 and became a Fellow in 1859. In 1877 and 1878 he was a member of the council, and in 1881 and 1882 censor. Beale was the museum's curator from 1876 to 1888. In 1871 he was awarded the Baly Medal for his physiological work. In 1875 Beale gave the Lumleian Lecture.

On June 11, 1857, Beale was accepted as a member of the Royal Society and held its Croonian Lecture in 1865. In 1852 Beale joined the Royal Microscopical Society . In 1879 and 1880 he was its president and treasurer from 1881 to 1890.

The Beale solution and the Beale cells are named after him.

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • The Microscope and its Application to Clinical Medicine . 1st edition, Samuel Highley, London 1854 ( online ). - 4 editions, last from 1878
    • 2nd edition: The Microscope in its Application to Practical Medicine . John Churchill, London 1858 ( online ).
    • 4th edition: The Microscope in Medicine . J. & A. Churchill, 1878 ( online) .
  • On some Points of the Anatomy of the Liver of Man and Vertebrate Animals . John Churchill, London 1856 ( online) .
  • How to Work with the Microscope . 1st edition, John Churchill, London 1857 ( online ). - 5 editions, last in 1880
    • 2nd edition, John Churchill, London 1861 ( online ).
    • 4th edition, J. & A. Churchill, London 1868 ( online ).
    • 5th edition, Harrision, London 1880 ( online ).
  • On Urine, Urinary Deposits and Calculi, their Microscopical and Chemical Examination . 1st edition, John Churchill, London 1861 ( online ).
  • On the Structure of the Simple Tissues of the Human Body . 1861
    • The structure of the simple tissues of the human body . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1862 ( online ).
  • On the Structure and Growth of the Tissues, and on Life . 1865.
  • Disease Germs, their Supposed Nature and Disease Germs, their Real Nature, an Original Investigation . 2 volumes, John Churchill & Sons, London 1870 ( volume 1 , volume 2 ).
    • 2nd edition: Disease Germs, their Nature and Origin . J. & A. Churchill, London 1872 ( online) .
  • Protoplasm, or, Life Force and Matter . John Churchill & Sons, London 1870 ( online) .
  • The Mystery of Life . J. & A. Churchill, London 1871 ( online) .
  • Life Theories: Their Influence on Religious Thought . J. & A. Churchill, London 1871 ( online ).
  • On Slight Ailments, their Nature and Treatment . J. & A. Churchill, London 1880 ( online ).
  • The New Materialism: Dictatorial Scientific Utterances and the Decline of Thought . E. Stanford, London 1885 ( online ).
  • Our Morality, and the Moral Question, Chiefly from the Medical Aspect . J. & A. Churchill, London 1885.

Magazine articles

  • Vitality. An Appeal, an Apology, and a Challenge addressed to Brother Practitioners . In: The Lancet . Volume 151-152, 1898.
    • Vitality. An Appeal, an Apology, and a Challenge addressed to Brother Practitioners . In: The Lancet . Volume 151, Number 3894, April 16, 1898, pp. 1048-1050 ( doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 76727-X ).
    • Vitality. An Appeal, an Apology, and a Challenge addressed to Brother Practitioners (Continued from page 1050) . In: The Lancet . Volume 151, number 3902, June 11, 1898, pp. 1613-1615 ( doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 78251-7 ).
    • Vitality. An Appeal, an Apology, and a Challenge addressed to Brother Practitioners (Continued from page 1613, June 11th) . In: The Lancet . Volume 152, number 3907, July 16, 1898, pp. 140-144 ( doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 98025-0 ).
    • Vitality. An Appeal, an Apology, and a Challenge addressed to Brother Practitioners. Bioplasm. (Continued from page 144, July 16th) . In: The Lancet . Volume 152, number 3911, August 13, 1898, pp. 405-407 ( doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 99581-9 ).
    • Vitality. An Appeal, an Apology, and a Challenge addressed to Brother Practitioners. (Concluded from page 407 August 13th) The inner life of the bioplasm . In: The Lancet . Volume 152, number 3913, August 27, 1898, pp. 539-545 ( doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 81863-8 ).

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literature

  • Gerald L. Geison: Beale, Lionel Smith . In: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography . Volume 1, Charles Scribner's Sons, Detroit 2008, pp. 539-541 (online) .
  • WD Foster: Lionel Smith Beale and the beginnings of clinical pathology . In: Medical History . Volume 2, Number 4, pp. 269-273 ( doi: 10.1017 / S0025727300023966 ).
  • RTH: Prof. Lionel Smith Beale, FRS In: Nature . Volume 73, number 1901, April 5, 1906, p. 540 ( doi: 10.1038 / 073540a0 ).
  • PHPS: Lionel Smith Beale, 1828-1906 . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing papers of a biological character . Volume 79, 1907, pp. LVII-LXIII.
  • Michael Worboys: Beale, Lionel Smith (1828-1906). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 4: Barney – Bellasis. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861354-7 , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), As of 2004, accessed September 8, 2012.
  • [Anonymous]: Beale, Lionel Smith . In: Who Was Who. A Companion To “Who's Who” containing the Biographies of those who died during the Period 1897-1916 . London 1920, p. 49 ( online ).
  • [Anonymous]: Obituary . In: The Lancet . Volume 167, number 4310, April 7, 1906, pp. 1004-1008 ( doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 44642-3 ).
  • [Anonymous]: Lionel Smith Beale, MBLond., FRCP, FRS In: British Medical Journal . Volume 1, number 2362, April 7, 1906, pp. 836-837 ( online , doi: 10.1136 / bmj.1.2362.836 ).
  • [Anonymous]: The Times . Number 37980, March 29, 1906, p. 7, Sp F ( online) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scans at archive.org

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personal data
SURNAME Beale, Lionel Smith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British doctor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1906
Place of death London