Matthew Baillie

Matthew Baillie ( pron. behli ) ( born October 27, 1761 Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, † September 23, 1823 in Duntisbourne, Gloucestershire ) was a physician and anatomist.

Baillie was the son of a Scottish clergyman James Baillie, brother of the poet Joanna Baillie and nephew (later also students ) of the famous surgeon and anatomist John and William Hunter. His father was a gynecologist Thomas Denman.

Baillie studied medicine in London and was already 20 years old demonstrator of anatomy. Together with William Cumberland Cruikshank in 1785 he opened the first anatomical course. 1787 he was appointed as a physician to the St. George 's Hospital. In 1788 he described the complete lateral reversal of the organs of the body ( situs inversus ) at a corpse. To 1822 Baillie retired from public life and died on September 23, 1823 at age 61 of tuberculosis.

Works

• Anatomy of the pathological construction of some of the most important parts in the human body ("The morbid anatomy of some of the human most important parts of the human body "). 2nd edition 1820 ( translated by Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring ) Berlin.
• A series of engravings Accompanied with Explanations Which are Intended to illustrate the morbid anatomy of the human body. London 1799-1812 (10 issues ).
• Medicinische 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