Background
William Bulloch was born on August 19, 1868, in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of John Bulloch, an accountant, and Mary Malcolm. He also had a brother and two sisters.
University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, United Kingdom
In 1884 William Bulloch proceeded to the University of Aberdeen to graduate Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery degrees with honours in 1890. Bulloch took Doctor of Medicine degree also with honours from the University of Aberdeen in 1894.
University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, United Kingdom
In 1884 William Bulloch proceeded to the University of Aberdeen to graduate Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery degrees with honours in 1890. Bulloch took Doctor of Medicine degree also with honours from the University of Aberdeen in 1894.
University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, United Kingdom
In 1884 William Bulloch proceeded to the University of Aberdeen to graduate Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery degrees with honours in 1890. Bulloch took Doctor of Medicine degree also with honours from the University of Aberdeen in 1894.
University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, United Kingdom
In 1884 William Bulloch proceeded to the University of Aberdeen to graduate Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery degrees with honours in 1890. Bulloch took Doctor of Medicine degree also with honours from the University of Aberdeen in 1894.
Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, St. James's, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom
William Bulloch was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1913.
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William Bulloch was born on August 19, 1868, in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of John Bulloch, an accountant, and Mary Malcolm. He also had a brother and two sisters.
Bulloch was educated unsuccessfully at the Grammar school and more successfully at Aberdeen Grammar School (the "Barn"). In 1884 he proceeded to the University of Aberdeen to graduate Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery degrees with honours in 1890.
In 1890 – 1891 William Bulloch worked as an assistant in medical practice, but then returned to the University of Aberdeen in 1891 and worked under David James Hamilton on the pathology of the mammalian nervous system. Bulloch did post-graduate work at the University of Leipzig as a voluntary assistant to Birch-Hirschfeld and also studied at Vienna. In 1894 he returned briefly to the University of Aberdeen and received the higher medical qualification Doctor of Medicine.
In London in 1894, Bulloch was assistant to David Ferrier at King's College and then assistant to Victor Horsley at University College Hospital; Horseley also assisted him to obtain further experience in Paris and Copenhagen.
On his return in 1895, Bulloch took charge of the serum laboratories at the British (later, Lister) Institute of Preventive Medicine at Sudbury. In 1897 he was appointed bacteriologist to the London Hospital and lecturer on bacteriology and pathological chemistry to its medical school, and in 1919 became Goldsmith’s professor of bacteriology at the University of London. After officially retiring in 1934, Bulloch served these institutions as consulting bacteriologist and emeritus professor.
His bibliography also totals more than a hundred titles, and Bulloch was generally sole author. The earliest reports, dating from 1892, were histoneurological; but the scope soon broadened to include, for instance, descriptions of a new anaerobic jar or bacterial filter, and investigations of such contemporary problems as Ehrlich’s diphtheria toxin "spectra" and antitoxin assay, Almroth Wright’s opsonins and vaccine therapy (especially as related to tuberculosis), and the Wassermann test for syphilis. This work, always carefully performed and meticulously recorded, seldom revealed new knowledge of signal importance, but facilitated critical appraisal of others’ claims. After 1910 Bulloch deserted the laboratory for the library, and his publications were mainly painstaking reviews of hereditary diseases, notably hemophilia, whose genetics fascinated him, and tributes to distinguished bacteriologists. His innate compilatory and historical talents were best expressed in his contributions to monographs on diphtheria (1923)and surgical catgut (1929), and to A System of Bacteriology (1929–1931), culminating in his scholarly masterpiece, The History of Bacteriology (1938).
His knowledgeableness and scrupulosity brought him membership on various technical advisory committees and the chairmanship, in 1932, of the Lister Institute’s board of governors.
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1913
Although a lacakdaisical administrator, William Bulloch was an unforgettable lecturer. A clever mimic and raconteur, he enjoyed dramatizing the foibles and accomplishments of ramous bacteriologists at home and abroad, many of whom were personal friends.
William Bulloch’s brief marriage in 1901 to Anna Molbo, a Danish pianist, was dissolved. In 1923 he married Irene Adelaide Baker, widow of an Australian cricketer, who survived him.
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