Beale

Beale, LIONEL SMITH, a distinguished physician and physiologist, born in London in 1828, studied medicine at King's College, where he afterwards became professor. Besides the usual professional distinction, he is F.R.S., and a member of scientific societies in Sweden, New York, Italy, and Belgium. He has made numberless contributions to the Lancet and other special journals, and has written books of great value on microscopy, kidney diseases, urinary deposits, the distribution of nerves to voluntary muscle, the structure and growth of the tissues. More important still are his Protoplasm, or Life, Force, and Matter (1870); Life Theories, their Influence upon Religious Thought (1871); Life and Vital Action in Health and Disease (1875); Principles and Practice of Medicine in Slight Ailments (1880).