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Andrew Balfour

Scottish Medical Officer, specialist in tropical medicine, rugby union player (1873–1931)

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  • Works from the collections
  • Frequent collaborators
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images by Andrew Balfour

7 images from works
  • Second report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum / Andrew Balfour.
  • Mwanza, Tanzania: the meat-market: roofed with open sides. Photograph by Andrew Balfour, 1910/1920 (?).
  • A bicycle with milk pails, held by an African boy, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Photograph by Dr. Andrew Balfour, ca. 1910 (?).
  • Third report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum / Andrew Balfour, director.
  • Second report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum / Andrew Balfour.
  • The Kilwa area (Nanganachi village ?), Tanzania, East Africa: a Tanzanian man spit-roasting meat over an open fire in front of a grass hut. Photograph by Andrew Balfour, ca. 1910 (?).
  • A kneeling camel, with a cacolet attached to its back: used to transport injured soldiers during World War I. Photograph copied from a print by Dr. Balfour, 1916.
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Images featuring Andrew Balfour

2 images from works
  • The Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: staff including the director Andrew Balfour (seated centre) and his successor Charles Wenyon (seated to his left). Photograph, 1923.
  • The Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: staff including the director Andrew Balfour (seated centre) and his successor Charles Wenyon (seated to his left). Photograph, 1923.

Works from the collections

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Works by this person
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Works featuring this person

45 works

    • Books

    The medical entomology of Salonica /by Andrew Balfour.

    Andrew Balfour | Date: [1916?]
    • Books

    Review of some of the recent advances in tropical medicine ... : being a supplement to the third report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. Leishmaniosis / by Andrew Balfour and R.G. Archibald.

    Andrew Balfour | Date: [1908]
    • Books

    Report on sanitary matters in the districts of Rivière du Rempart and Flacq / by Andrew Balfour.

    Andrew Balfour | Date: [1921]
    • Books

    Report on medical matters in Mauritius / by Andrew Balfour.

    Andrew Balfour | Date: [1921]
    • Books

    Mesopotamia inquiries : report on 3rd Indian Army Corps / Andrew Balfour [and others].

    | Date: 1917
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Frequent collaborators

Charles Morley Wenyon
Medical Advisory Committee.
Archibald, R. G. (Robert George), Sir, 1880-1953.
John Ledingham

Related topics

Sanitation
Tropical Medicine
Public Health
Military Medicine
Disease Outbreaks
Sudan
Research
Communicable Diseases
Water Supply
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