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See also:GULL, See also:SIR See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM WITHEY , 1st See also:Bart. (1816-1890), See also:English physician, was the youngest son of See also:John Gull, a See also:barge-owner and wharfinger of See also:Thorpe-le-Soken, See also:Essex, and was See also:born on the 31st of See also:December 1816 at See also:Colchester. He began See also:life as a schoolmaster, but in 1837 See also:Benjamin See also:Harrison, the treasurer of See also:Guy's See also:Hospital, who had noticed his ability, brought him up to See also:London from the school at See also:Lewes where he was See also:- USHER (O. Fr. ussier, uissier, mod. huissier, from Lat. ostiarius, a door-keeper, ostium, doorway, entrance, os, mouth)
- USHER (or USSHER), JAMES (1581-1656)
usher, and gave him employment at the hospital, where he also gained permission to attend the lectures. In 1843 he was made a lecturer in the medical school of the hospital, in 1851 he was chosen an assistant physician, and in 1856 he became full physician. In 1847 he was elected Fullerian See also:professor of See also:physiology in the Royal Institution, retaining the See also:post for the usual three years, and in 1848 he delivered the Gulstonian Lectures at the See also:College of Physicians, where he filled every See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:honour but that of See also:president. He died in London on the 29th of See also:January 1890 after a See also:series of paralytic strokes, the first of which had occurred nearly three years previously. He was created a See also:baronet in 1872, in recognition of the skill and care he had shown in attending the See also:prince of See also:Wales during his attack of typhoid in 1871. Sir William Gull's fame rested mainly on his success as a clinical practitioner; as he said himself, he was " a clinical physician or nothing." This success must be largely ascribed to his remarkable See also:powers of observation, and to the See also:great opportunities he enjoyed for gaining experience of disease. He was sometimes accused of being a disbeliever in drugs. That was not the See also:case, for he prescribed drugs like other physicians when he considered them likely to be beneficial. He See also:felt, however, that their See also:administration was only a See also:part of the physician's duties, and his See also:mental honesty and outspokenness prevented him from deluding either himself or his patients with unwarranted notions of what they can do. But though he regarded See also:medicine as primarily an See also:art for the See also:relief of See also:physical suffering, he was far from disregarding the scientific See also:side of his
' The word " gulf," a portion of the See also:sea partially enclosed by the See also:coast-See also:line, and usually taken as referring to a See also:tract of See also:water larger than a See also:bay and smaller than a sea, is derived through the Fr. golfe, from See also:Late Gr. s6X 'os, class. Gr. Kogiros, bosom, hence bay, cf. See also:Lat. sinus. I.n University See also:slang, the See also:term is used of the position of those who fail to obtain a See also:place in the honours See also:list at a public examination, but are allowed a "pass."profession, and he made some real contributions to medical See also:science.
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