Prof William John Tulloch MD FRSE (1887–1966) was a 20th-century Scottish bacteriologist and medical author. He was an expert on

tetanus Tetanus, also known as lockjaw, is a bacterial infection caused by ''Clostridium tetani'', and is characterized by muscle spasms. In the most common type, the spasms begin in the jaw and then progress to the rest of the body. Each spasm usually ...

Life

He was born in Dundee on 12 November 1887 the youngest of five children of Henry Tulloch. His father and uncle were hatters, with two shops, H & W Tulloch in Dundee. They lived at 14 Albany Terrace in Dundee. His mother, Coralie von Wassenhove, was from Waerschoot in

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. He studied medicine at

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and graduated MB ChB in 1909. In 1914 he became the first lecturer in Bacteriology at

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. In the

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he served as a lecturer at the Royal Army Medical College and on the War Office Committee on

Tetanus Tetanus, also known as lockjaw, is a bacterial infection caused by ''Clostridium tetani'', and is characterized by muscle spasms. In the most common type, the spasms begin in the jaw and then progress to the rest of the body. Each spasm usually ...

. He rose to be Dean of Medicine. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1960. His proposers were George Bell, Norman Davidson,

Ian George Wilson Hill Sir Ian George Wilson Hill (7 September 1904 – 5 May 1982) was a Scottish physician. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1963 to 1966 and the official Physician to the Queen in Scotland. He was Chairman of t ...

and Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick. He retired in 1962 and died in

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on the south coast of

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on 26 August 1966.

Family

He was married to "Miss Sheridan".

Artistic Recognition

His portrait by A. G. C. Ross is held by Dundee University.

Publications

*''Diagnostic Value of the Vaccinia Variola Fluctuation Test'' (1929)

References

1887 births 1966 deaths People from Dundee Alumni of the University of St Andrews Academics of the University of Dundee Scottish bacteriologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{Scotland-med-bio-stub