BAILLIE, MATTHEW (1761-1823), Scottish physician, was born at Shotts, Lanarkshire, on Oct. 27, 1761. He was edu cated at Balliol college, Oxford, and after studying medicine under his uncle, William Hunter, was made physician at St. George's hospital, London, in 1787. Two years later he received the M.D. and the F.R.C.P. In 1795 appeared his Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Body, which was the first attempt to treat pathology as a subject in itself. His Lectures and Observations on Medicine were published in 1825.