William Baly

William Baly (1814-1861) was an English physician who was born in King's Lynn, in the county of Norfolk. After studying medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Society of Apothecaries, he furthered his studies in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin. After receiving his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1836, Baly returned to London and opened a private practice. Later he was a lecturer and physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1859 he was appointed "physician extraordinary" to Queen Victoria.

Baly specialized in the research of dysentery and cholera. In 1840s he was a prison physician at Millbank Penitentiary, and published an important treatise on diseases and hygiene concerning prisons. He also published an English translation of Johannes Peter Muller's Elements of Physiology. Baly was killed in a railway accident, southwest of London, on January 28, 1861.

Written Works

 * Elements of Physiology, (Translation with Notes by William Baly, author: Johannes Peter Muller, translator: William Baly) (2 vols. London, 1838-42)
 * Diseases in Prisons', Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, (vol. XXVIII, 1845)
 * Recent Advances in the Physiology of Motion, the Senses, Generation, and Development. Being a Supplement to the 2nd Volume of Professor Muller's Elements of Physiology (London, 1848)
 * Reports on Epidemic Cholera (2 parts) (London, 1854)