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George William Balfour
British physician, born May 2, 1823; died August 9, 1903, Colington, Edinburgh county.
Associated eponyms:
Balfour's test
Test to ascertain whether the heart is still active, in cases of apparent death.
Biography:
George William Balfour obtained his medical doctorate in 1845 and subsequently received further education in Vienna and Edinburgh, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at the latter university in 1861. He worked in the Royal Infirmary.
Balfour translated Johann Ludwig Casper’s (1796-1864) Praktische Handbuch der gerichtlichen Medizin (2 volumes, 1856), and Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke’s (1842-1922) Krankheiten der Gefässe. (in: von Ziemssen’s Handbuch der speziellen Therapie, Leipzig 1876-1879).
Bibliography:
- On homeopathy in Vienna. 1846.
- An introduction to the study of medicine. 1847.
- Clinical lectures on diseases of the heart and aorta.
London, J. & A. Churchill, 1876.
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