| 词条 | George William Balfour |
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George William Balfour MD LLD FRSE (2 June 1823 – 9 August 1903) was a Scottish physician, known as a heart specialist. LifeBorn at the manse of Sorn, Ayrshire, on 2 June 1823, he was sixth son and eighth of the thirteen children of Rev Lewis Balfour DD (1777-1860), by his wife Henrietta Scott, third daughter of George Smith, D.D., minister of Galston; James Balfour was a brother, Thomas Stevenson was a brother-in-law, and Robert Louis Stevenson was a nephew. After education at Colinton, he planned first to study veterinary science and settle in Australia; but entered the Medical School of Edinburgh. In 1845 he graduated M.D. at the University of St. Andrews, and was licensed by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.[1] After acting as house surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, Balfour in 1846 went to Vienna, where he studied under Joseph Škoda, Carl Ludwig Sigmund, and Wilhelm Fleischmann the homeopath. Balfour was a general practitioner in Midlothian from 1846 till 1857, when he removed to Edinburgh, and practised as a physician on becoming F.R.C.P. Edinburgh in 1861. In 1866 he was appointed physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and from 1867 he was physician to the Royal Infirmary, being appointed consulting physician in 1882, on the expiry of his term of office.[1] Balfour specialised in diseases of the heart and circulation, a leading figure of his time in the area with Sir William Tennant Gairdner in Glasgow, and Charles Hilton Fagge in London. He was librarian to the College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1873 to 1882 and from 1887 to 1899. He was president of the college 1882-4, and was a member of the University Court of St. Andrews for many years. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. at Edinburgh in 1884, and at St. Andrews in 1896. He was appointed physician in ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1900 and honorary physician to King Edward VII in 1901.[1] In 1899 Balfour retired from the town centre of Edinburgh to live in Colinton, on the south-west outskirts of the city, where he died on 9 August 1903.[1] He is buried in the Balfour vault on the north side of Colinton Parish Church. His obituary was written by his colleague James Ormiston Affleck.[2] WorksOn his return from Austria, in 1846, Balfour published papers on "The Treatment of Pneumonia as practised by Skoda";[3] "Necrosis of the Jaw induced by Phosphorus as taught by Sigmund";[4] and "The Homœopathic Treatment of Acute Diseases by Fleischmann".[5] For the New Sydenham Society he translated (1861-5) the Hand-book of the Practice of Forensic Medicine, by Johann Ludwig Casper. In 1865 he published An Introduction to the Study of Medicine.[1] In 1868, following a suggestion of his father-in-law, Dr. James Craig of Ratho, he wrote two papers on "The Treatment of Aneurysm by Iodide of Potassium". His standing as a cardiologist rested on Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1876) and The Senile Heart (1894).[1] FamilyBalfour married three times:[1]
Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite DNB12|wstitle=Balfour, George William|volume=1}} Attribution{{DNB12|wstitle=Balfour, George William|volume=1}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Balfour, George William}}2. ^https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=l-xKnQAACAAJ&dq=james+ormiston+affleck&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyxvmLmKHTAhXDDsAKHRR3DX4Q6AEIFDAA 3. ^Northern Journal of Medicine, Jan. 1846, p. 55 4. ^Northern Journal of Medicine, May 1846, p. 284 5. ^British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Oct. 1846, p. 567 8 : 1823 births|1903 deaths|19th-century Scottish medical doctors|Alumni of the University of St Andrews|Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|Scottish medical writers|People from Ayrshire |
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