Alfred George Barrs

Alfred George Barrs, M.D., F.R.C.P. Hon. LL.D (1853 - 28 February 1934) was a physician and professor of medicine. He was among the first medical professionals to identify a link between tuberculosis and pleural effusions.

Life and education Alfred Barrs was born in Leicester in 1853, the son of John Barrs. He was educated at his local grammar school and completed his medical training at Guy's Hospital and the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis On adherent pericardium of rheumatic origin, with cases was written in 1883.

Barrs was married to Alice Bywater Nelson, daughter of Henry Nelson, solicitor. She died in 1897. They had no children. and remaining in this position for twenty years. and dermatology, looking after the dermatological patients as a junior physician. He also submitted four water color drawings to the Dermatological Society of London. In 1890 he published a paper on the tubercular origins of some pleural effusions, one of the first medical professionals to link the two.