Background
The son of William Walshe, a barrister, he was born in Dublin on 19 March 1812.
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Walter Walshe
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He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, entering in 1827, but did not take a degree. In 1830 he went to live in Paris, and there initially studied oriental languages, but in 1832 began medicine. Walshe went to Edinburgh in 1835, there graduated Doctor of Medicine
Career
He became acquainted in 1834 with the anatomist Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior and François Louis Isidore Valleix, the French physician, were his fellow-students, and continued his friends throughout life. in 1836, and in 1838 began practice in London. He was elected as professor of morbid anatomy at University College, London, in 1841, lecturing on morbid anatomy till 1846, when he was elected Holme professor of clinical medicine and physician to University College Hospital.
In 1848 he was appointed professor of the principles and practice of medicine, a post which he held till 1862.
In his lectures he used numerical statements of fact and case analysis. Sir William Jenner praised his clarity.
His pupils maintained that he was the first accurately to describe the anatomy of movable kidney and epidural haematoma, and to teach that patients with aortic regurgitation are likely to die suddenly. In 1852 Walshe was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians of London.
He first lived in Upper Charlotte Street, then in Queen Anne Street, and had for at time a considerable practice as a physician.
Sir Andrew Clark commented that he had little ability in the treatment of disease. Walshe died in London on 14 December 1892.
