1. Matthew Baillie FRS was a British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels and situs inversus.
11 Facts About Matthew Baillie
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Matthew Baillie's father was Professor of Divinity at Glasgow University.
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Matthew Baillie was a pupil of his uncle, the anatomist John Hunter and his father-in-law, Dr Thomas Denman, a pre-eminent obstetrician in London at the turn of the nineteenth century, whose textbook on childbirth had been first published in 1788.
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Matthew Baillie then taught anatomy and was appointed Physician at St George's Hospital in 1789, but gave up both posts to establish his own medical practice in Grosvenor Square, becoming Physician in Ordinary to George III.
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Matthew Baillie became Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1790, specialising in morbid anatomy.
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Matthew Baillie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1790 and delivered their Croonian Lecture in 1791.
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Matthew Baillie was the middle stature, and of rather a slender form.
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Matthew Baillie's countenance was marked with a great deal of sagacity and penetration.
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Matthew Baillie died of tuberculosis on 23 September 1823 in Duntisbourne, Gloucestershire, England at the age of 61 and was buried in Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire.
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Matthew Baillie was married to Sophia Denman, the sister of Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman.
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Matthew Baillie is credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels and situs inversus.