BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1865 – 1936)
1865 – 1936
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
1891 CE
#2965
A treatise on the ligation of the great arteries in continuity.
Includes Ballance’s scale of measurement of caliber of arteries.
1907 CE
#4879.01
Some points on the surgery of the brain and its membranes.
Ballance recognized and described chronic subdural hematoma with great accuracy, described a successful operation for it and also for subdural hygroma, discussed brain abscess fully and devoted 243pp. to brain tumors.
1919 CE
#3403.1
Essays on the surgery of the temporal bone. 2 vols.
Finely illustrated, and beautifully produced, with several historical chapters. Includes a history of the development of temporal bone surgery.
1922 CE
#5008
A glimpse into the history of the surgery of the brain.
Thomas Vicary Lecture. First published in Lancet, 1922, 1, 111-16, 165-72.
1932 CE
#4899
The operative treatment of facial palsy by the introduction of nerve grafts into the Fallopian canal and by other intratemporal methods.
A classic paper which includes some history of the surgical treatment of facial palsy.