Matthew Baillie
Matthew Baillie (spr. Behli) (born October 27, 1761 in Shotts , North Lanarkshire , Scotland, † September 23, 1823 in Duntisbourne , Gloucestershire , England) was a Scottish doctor, anatomist and pathologist.
Baillie was the son of a Scottish clergyman James Baillie, brother of the poetess Joanna Baillie and nephew (later also a student) of the famous surgeons and anatomists John and William Hunter . His father-in-law was the gynecologist Thomas Denman .
Baillie studied medicine in Glasgow, Oxford and London and was an anatomy demonstrator at the age of 20 . Together with William Cumberland Cruikshank , he opened the first anatomical course in 1785. In 1787 he was called to the St. George Hospital as a doctor , where he worked until 1791. In 1788 he described the complete reversal of the body organs ( situs inversus ) in a corpse. Around 1800 he ran a large practice in London. Baillie withdrew from public life around 1822 and died of tuberculosis on September 23, 1823 at the age of 61 .
Since 1799 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
Works
- Anatomy of the morbid structure of some of the most important parts in the human body ("The morbid human anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body"). 2nd edition Berlin 1820 (translated by Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring ).
- A series of engravings accompanied with explanations which are intended to illustrate the morbid anatomy of the human body . London 1799-1812 (10 issues).
- Medicinal lectures and observations ("Lectures and observations on medicine"). Lehnhold, Leipzig 1827.
- An Account of a Remarkable Transposition of the Viscera. By Matthew Baillie, MD In a Letter to John Hunter, Esq. FRS Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Vol. 78, Pag. 350-363, 1788
literature
- James Wardrop: The Life of Matthew Baillie ... From the edition of his works . London 1825.
- Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Baillie, Matthew. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 133.
Individual evidence
- ↑ shaper RSE Fellows 1783-2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 7, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baillie, Matthew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish physician and anatomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shotts , North Lanarkshire , Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1823 |
| Place of death | Duntisbourne , Gloucestershire |