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John Hutton Balfour
British physician, born September 15, 1808, Edinburgh,
died February 11, 1884.
Associated eponyms:
Balfour's disease
A disturbance characterized by multiple tumorous masses formed by the bony infiltrates in myelogenous leukemia.
Biography:
John Hutton Balfour attended the University of Edinburgh where he obtained his medical doctorate in 1831 and that year became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a fellow in 1833. He subsequently commenced medical practice, but in 1840 began giving lectueres in botany and in 1841 was appointed professor of botany at the University of Glasgow. In 1845 he moved to the same tenure at Edinburgh, also becoming head of the Royal Botanical Garden and Queen’s botanist for Scotland.
For 30 years John Hutton Balfor was dean of the medical faculty in Edinburgh, where he first introduced teaching in microscopy. He retired from his tenure in 1879, receiving the honorary L.L.D. from the three universities to which he had been affiliated.
Balfour’s numerous publications during the years 1862 to 1875 exclusively concern botany. Medical works include the paper describing his disease, and:
Bibliography:
- Literary and scientific studies in connection with medicine.
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