William Rutty M.D. (1687–1730) was an English physician.

Life

He was born in London, and entered

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in 1707, graduating M.B. in 1712 and M.D. on 17 July 1719. He was admitted a candidate or member of the Royal College of Physicians 30 September 1719, and was elected a fellow 30 September 1720. On 13 August 1720 he was a candidate for the osteology lecture at the Barber-Surgeons' Hall, and again 30 October 1721; and was successful when a candidate for the third time on 29 March 1721. On 20 August 1724 he was elected to the viscera lectureship at the same place, and 15 August 1728 to the muscular lectureship. Rutty was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

30 June 1720, and became second secretary 30 November 1727. He died on 10 June 1730. The physician

John Rutty John Rutty (1697–1775) was a Dublin Quaker physician and naturalist born in Melksham, Wiltshire, England. He was the author of many texts including ''A methodical synopsis of the Mineral Waters of Ireland'' (1757) and ''An Essay towards the Nat ...

was a cousin.

Works

In March 1722 Rutty delivered the

Gulstonian lectures The Goulstonian Lectures are an annual lecture series given on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians in London. They began in 1639. The lectures are named for Theodore Goulston (or Gulston, died 1632), who founded them with a bequest A beque ...

at the College of Physicians on the anatomy and diseases of the urinary organs, and published them in 1726 as ''A Treatise of the Urinary Passages'', with a dedication to

Sir Hans Sloane Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Irish physician, naturalist, and collector, with a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Mu ...

. The work relates two distinctive cases: one in the practice of John Bamber, lithotomist to

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, of calcified concretions in the caecum giving rise to symptoms resembling renal colic; and the other of double

renal calculus Kidney stone disease, also known as nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a crystallopathy where a solid piece of material (kidney stone) develops in the urinary tract. Kidney stones typically form in the kidney and leave the body in the urine s ...

in the daughter of

Sir Hugh Myddelton Sir Hugh Myddelton (or Middleton), 1st Baronet (1560 – 10 December 1631) was a Welsh clothmaker, entrepreneur, mine-owner, goldsmith, banker and self-taught engineer. The spelling of his name is inconsistently reproduced, but Myddelton appear ...

, from a note by

Francis Glisson Francis Glisson (1597 – 14 October 1677Guido Giglioni'Glisson, Francis (1599?–1677)' ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 31 December 2008) was a British physicia ...

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Rutty, William 1687 births 1730 deaths Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal Society