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Tilneywas born on June 4, 1875 in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was the oldest in a family of four sons of Thomas Joseph and Katharine Amelia (Hutchinson) Tilney.
His father, who had come to Brooklyn from Paris, Ontario, in 1859, was a lawyer. Both parents died young, the mother in 1891, the father in 1893.
Education
Young Tilney attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and in 1892 entered Yale, where, like his father before him, he developed an interest in literature. While in college he was active on the Yale Literary Magazine and the Yale Courant, He graduated with B. A. in 1897.
In 1899 he decided instead to study medicine. Enrolling in the medical school of the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, he graduated with an M. D. degree in 1903 and then spent a year in Europe, where he worked under the celebrated neurologist Hermann Oppenheim at the University of Berlin and attended lectures in Heidelberg, Paris, and Milan.
Upon returning to the United States, he pursued further study, chiefly in anatomy, at the Long Island College Hospital, meanwhile setting up a medical practice. A strong desire to carry on research in the comparative anatomy and morphology of the central nervous system led Tilney to become associated in 1908 with Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
While serving first as demonstrator, then as associate in anatomy, he conducted, under the direction of the distinguished morphologist George S. Huntington, a study of the pituitary body or hypophysis, for which he received the Ph. D. degree from Columbia University in 1912.
Career
He worked as a reporter and in the editorial department of the New York Sun, thus laying the foundation for the notably clear literary style of his later life. He next became editor of the American Boy magazine and seemed launched on a promising career.
He became associate professor of neurology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and in 1915 professor and head of the department of neurology. Tilney's contributions to neurology were twofold: in research and in administration.
From 1908 until his death he published a number of important papers on the nervous system and directed or actuated many research projects in the clinical and social aspects of neurology. He was especially concerned with the relationship between the development and structure of the brain and behavior and intelligence. His books include The Form and Functions of the Central Nervous System (with Henry Alsop Riley, 1920), The Brain from Ape to Man (2 vols. , 1928), a broad and comprehensive work incorporating the results of many of his earlier investigations, and a popular study of the brain, The Master of Destiny (1930). In the last book and in many of his public addresses Tilney was concerned with the philosophic implications of his work and the urgent need for more knowledge about the organ that "controls man's work, his happiness and perhaps his salvation. "
Despite his constant preoccupation with research, to which he devoted his afternoons and many evenings, Tilney found time for an extensive private practice, for teaching, and for administrative responsibilities. In 1919 he joined the staff of the Neurological Institute, a hospital for the study and treatment of nervous diseases founded by a group of New York neurologists in 1909. He gave thought to the improvement of its clinical procedures and research facilities and worked prodigiously to raise the funds which made possible its new building, erected in 1929 as part of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
Tilney was medical director of the Institute from 1935 until failing health forced his resignation in 1938, at which time the Institute merged with the Presbyterian Hospital. Similarly, under Tilney's guidance the department of neurology of the College of Physicians and Surgeons expanded from a single room with one technician to a major department teaching in all four years of the medical course.
In 1924 Tilney suffered a complete right hemiplegia and aphasia, from which he determinedly recovered after a convalescence of a year and a half.
He died of chronic myocarditis at his country home on Centre Island, Oyster Bay, N. Y. , and was buried in the family plot at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
In 1926-27 he was president both of the American Neurological Association and of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, of which he was one of the founders.
Personality
His many associates and students were stimulated by his clear, meticulous mind and diagnostic acumen; his pervading kindliness inspired devotion among both colleagues and patients.
Connections
He was survived by his wife, Camilla Hurley of St. Louis, Mo. , whom he had married on June 15, 1903, and by their only child, Frederick.