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year to his appointment as Physician to that establishment. The 

 post was of immense advantage to him. It gave him sufficient 

 means of living, while he had very little private practice. The num- 

 her of sick under his care was often large ; their diseases had pecu- 

 liar interest ; and he was brought into contact with Government 

 officers, many of whom could appreciate his trustworthiness and 

 rare ability. For nearly twenty years during which he held this 

 appointment, among all the changes to which the prison was sub- 

 jected in its discipline and purpose, and in all the varieties of admi- 

 nistration under successive Home Secretaries, inspectors, and go- 

 vernors, he was always well esteemed, always trusted, and very 

 generally referred to as a principal medical adviser of Government 

 on questions of the hygiene of prisons. The chief results of his 

 studies at the prison are comprised in his numerous Reports ; but 

 more especially in a most elaborate paper on the " Diseases of Pri- 

 sons," in the twenty-eighth volume of the ' Medico- Chirurgical 

 Transactions/ and in his ' Gulstonian Lectures on Dysentery/ 

 published in 1847. To the same studies also may be referred much 

 of the knowledge displayed in the Report on Cholera, drawn up in 

 conjunction with Dr. Gull, at the desire of the College of Physicians. 

 In 1841 Dr. Baly became Lecturer on Forensic Medicine at St. 

 Bartholomew's Hospital. He held that Lectureship for fourteen 

 years ; and though, as his simultaneous work at the prison showed, 

 he never forgot that the real business of his life was in Practical 

 Medicine, yet he worked assiduously and conscientiously at the 

 duties of this subsidiary appointment. 



In 1846 Dr. Baly was admitted a Fellow of the College of Phy- 

 sicians ; in 1847 a Fellow of the Royal Society ; in 1854 he became 

 Assistant-Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital; and in 1855, 

 in conjunction with Dr. Burrows, Lecturer on Medicine there. He 

 was now fairly in the tide of practice, with every prospect of attain- 

 ing high reputation as a hospital physician, and of multiplying a 

 hundredfold the value of his knowledge by diffusing it among his 

 pupils. 



But his social position was to be yet more eminent, and his influ- 

 ence yet wider. In 1859 some one of adequate fitness was required 

 \vho might at first share with Sir James Clark, and then hold alone, 

 the office of Physician in immediate attendance on the Queen and 



