Gull, SIR WILLIAM WITHEY

Gull, SIR WILLIAM WITHEY, physician, was born 31st December 1816, at Thorpe-le-Soken, in Essex. He studied at Guy's Hospital, and graduated M.B. at London University in 1841. Six years later he was made professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution, a post which he held for only two years. About the same time (1847) he became physician and lecturer at Guy's Hospital, his specialty being clinical practice. For his treatment of the Prince of Wales in 1871 he received a baronetcy, and was appointed physician-extra- ordinary to the Queen. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1848) and of several other medical and learned societies. He died 29th January 1890. Sir W. W. Gull published numerous papers and addresses, as Reports on Epidemic Cholera (with Dr W. Baly) in 1854; Gulstonian Lectures on Paralysis; the Hunterian oration in 1861 and the Harveian in 1870; and Alcohol as a Medicine and as a Beverage (1878). His collected works were edited for the New Sydenham Society by Dr Acland in 1893 and following years.