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Ballingall was son of the Rev Robert Ballingall, minister of Forglen, Banffshire, where he was born.
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Ballingall was son of the Rev Robert Ballingall, minister of Forglen, Banffshire, where he was born.
He studied at Street Andrews University, and in 1803 proceeded to the University of Edinburgh (Doctor of Medicine 1803), where he was assistant to John Barclay, lecturer on anatomy.
He was regius professor of military surgery at Edinburgh University. He was appointed assistant-surgeon of the 2nd battalion 1st Royals in 1806, with which he served some years in India. In November 1815 he became surgeon of the 33rd foot, and retired on half-pay in 1818.
In 1823 he was chosen (in preference to the more experienced David Maclagan) as lecturer on Military Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, which then, and for some years afterwards, was the only place in the United Kingdom where special instruction was given in a department of surgical science, the importance of which had too plainly been demonstrated during the long war just ended.
In 1825 Ballingall succeeded to the chair of military surgery, the duties of which he discharged with untiring zeal for thirty years, only ending with his death. He was knighted in 1830 on the occasion of the accession of King William IV. In 1832-1833 his address is recorded as 13 Heriot Row in Edinburgh.
In 1836 he was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.
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