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William Tillinghast Bull was the son of Henry B. Bull by his wife, Henrietta Melville, was born on May 18, 1849 in Newport, Rhode Island. The Bulls were descended from Henry Bull, one of the founders of the Roger Williams settlement at Newport (Aquidneck), who later was twice made governor of the colony.
William graduated from Harvard College in 1869 and in 1872 received the degree of M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York. Following his internship at the Bellevue Hospital he studied for two years in the leading clinics of Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and London and then returned to New York City where he passed the rest of his life engaged in an active surgical practise.
At various times William Bull was associated with the New York Dispensary (1875 - 77), the Chambers Street Hospital (1877 - 78), the New York Hospital (1883), St. Luke's Hospital (1880 - 83), the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, the Woman's and the Roosevelt hospitals. In these several positions he was active as teacher, consultant, and surgeon.
From 1889 to 1904 he was professor of surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Bull advocated for treatment of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, for hernia, and for cancer of the breast. It is related that during his service at the Chambers Street Hospital a woman died following an abdominal bullet wound. At the autopsy Bull became convinced that through prompt laparotomy with suture of the damaged intestines such cases might be saved. A few months later (November 2, 1884) a man was brought in with a similar wound and was promptly operated upon with complete success even though the intestines had to be sutured in seven places.
Since then Bull's procedure for such emergencies has been adopted by all surgeons. With William B. Coley he published "Observations on the Mechanical and Operative Treatment of Hernia at the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled" (Annals of Surgery, May 1893), in which he pointed out the inadequacy of the methods then employed and suggested improvements. With Coley also he wrote the sections on hernia in F. S. Dennis's System of Surgery (1896) and in the International Textbook of Surgery (1900).
Early in 1908 he developed cancer of the neck, and as surgery and X-ray proved of no avail, he succumbed, February 22, 1909.
Bull was distinguished as a specialist who had remarkable technical skills, great acumen in diagnosis, and a broad understanding of human problems. He is said to have been the first American who devoted himself entirely to surgery from the beginning of his practise. William Bull published in 1894 a noteworthy paper on "Cases of Cancer of the Breast Treated by Radical Operation, with a Report of 118 Cases" which was the most valuable contribution by an American surgeon up to that time. With W. Martin he edited the translation of Bergmann, Bruns, and Mikulicz's System of Practical Surgery in five volumes which appeared in 1904. It was said of him that he became one of the first in America to adopt antisepsis, and the large measure of success which immediately came to him on his return from Europe was undoubtedly due to this fact.
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Bull specialized upon the surgery of the abdomen, and his important contributions concern procedures which he studied and later advocated for treatment of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, for hernia, and for cancer of the breast.
He was married on May 30, 1893, to Mary, widow of James G. Blaine, Jr. , and daughter of Col. Richard Nevins of Ohio.
