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| | Jack The Ripper Suspect - William Withey Gull |
 | | In 1847 he was elected Fullerian professor of physiology in the Royal Institution, retaining the post for the usual three years, and in 1848 he delivered the Gulstonian Lectures at the College of Physicians, where he held every important office except president. |
 | | His papers were printed chiefly in Guys Hospital Reports and in the proceedings of learned societies: among the subjects he wrote about were cholera, rheumatic fever, tenia, paraplegia, and abscess of the brain, while he distinguished for the first time (1873) the disease now known as myxoedema, describing it as a cretinoid state in adults. |
 | | Inconsistencies in the circumstances surrounding Gulls death, and the fact that his Will was probated twice, gave rise to the theory that Gulls death had been faked by his family, who then placed him in an insane asylum under the name Thomas Mason in order to hide the fact that Gull was the Ripper. |
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