OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED 

 BETWEEN 30rH Nov. I860 AND 30rH Nov. 1861. 



WILLIAM BALY was born at Lynn, in Norfolk, in 1814, of parents 

 distinguished for their intellectual culture and literary tastes. He 

 was educated in the Lynn Grammar School, and was apprenticed to 

 Mr. Ingle (now Dr. Ingle, of Emsworth), an active and esteemed 

 practitioner of that town. 



In 1831 he entered as a pupil of University College, London, and 

 in 1832 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. At the former he attended 

 the lectures, and at the latter the practice, necessary for the usual 

 diplomas of the College of Surgeons and the Apothecaries' Hall. 

 At hoth schools alike he distinguished himself by earnest and suc- 

 cessful work ; and at the end of his pupilage he attached himself 

 to St. Bartholomew's, where he devoted himself zealously to the 

 study of clinical medicine, chiefly under the guidance of Dr. 

 Latham and Dr. Burrows, who even then observed so much of good 

 promise in him that they advised him to prepare to venture on the 

 life of a physician in London. Accordingly in 1834, after obtaining 

 the Diploma of the College of Surgeons and the Licence of the 

 Society of Apothecaries, he went to Paris with a view to the further 

 prosecution of his studies, and, after a winter spent there, to Heidel- 

 berg, and thence to Berlin, where he graduated as Doctor of Me- 

 dicine in 183G. 



On his return to England he settled in London, with the view of 

 establishing himself in practice. During the first four years of this 

 period of his career he was occupied with the translation of Miiller's 

 ' Handbuch der Physiologie,' a task which he executed with the 

 same scrupulous care as he gave to all his later works ; for he not 

 only rendered the German into English of a better style, but he 

 thoroughly studied and worked through the book, repeating many 

 of the observations it described, and examining many of its doc- 

 trines. His annotations to that work, if published separately, would 

 have gained for him the reputation of being an expert and original 

 physiologist. 



In 1840, through the recommendation of Dr. Latham, Dr. Baly 

 was appointed to visit and report on the state of the Milbauk Peni- 

 tentiary, where dysentery was very prevalent. This led in the next 



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