Alfred Barrs moved to Leeds in 1879, having previously worked in junior positions at Guy's Hospital.
After becoming M.R.C.P. in 1884, he was appointed assistant physician at Leeds General Infirmary, becoming a full physician in 1892 and remaining in this position for twenty years.
The areas he worked in included cardiac disease, publishing a paper in the British Medical Journal on the subject in 1892, 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.
As well as publishing articles in journals such as the BMJ and British Journal of Dermatology, Barrs also edited Braithwaite's Retrospect of Medicine.

Barrs taught Physiology at Leeds University (he was the university's first Demonstrator of Physiology) before becoming Chair of Medicine from 1899 to 1910, when he became Professor of Clinical Medicine.
In 1904, when the university gained its charter (it had previously been Yorkshire College), he became its first representative to the General Medical Council.
He was elected emeritus professor of medicine in 1921 and, on the centenary of Leeds medical school in 1931, was awarded an honorary L.L.D. in recognition of his services to medicine.
Alfred Barrs moved to Leeds in 1879, having previously worked in junior positions at Guy's Hospital. After becoming M.R.C.P. in 1884, he was appointed assistant physician at Leeds General Infirmary, becoming a full physician in 1892 and remaining in this position for twenty years. The areas he worked in included cardiac disease, publishing a paper in the British Medical Journal on the subject in 1892, 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. As well as publishing articles in journals such as the BMJ and British Journal of Dermatology, Barrs also edited Braithwaite's Retrospect of Medicine.
Barrs taught Physiology at Leeds University (he was the university's first Demonstrator of Physiology) before becoming Chair of Medicine from 1899 to 1910, when he became Professor of Clinical Medicine. In 1904, when the university gained its charter (it had previously been Yorkshire College), he became its first representative to the General Medical Council. He was elected emeritus professor of medicine in 1921 and, on the centenary of Leeds medical school in 1931, was awarded an honorary L.L.D. in recognition of his services to medicine.
Alfred George Barrs