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 William Withey Gull   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gull has been suggested as a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, but few researchers give credence to these arguments.
Inconsistencies in the circumstances surrounding Gull's death, and the fact that his Will was probated twice, gave rise to the theory that Gull's 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.
Gull has been mentioned as a suspect in a Freemasonic conspiracy theory, often in conjuction with Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence.
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 William Withey Gull
He began life as a schoolmaster, but in 1837 Benjamin Harrison, the treasurer of Guy's Hospital[?], who had noticed his ability, brought him up to London from the school at Lewes where he was usher, and gave him employment at the hospital, where he also gained permission to attend the lectures.
He was created a baronet in 1872, in recognition of the skill and care he had shown in attending the prince of Wales during his attack of typhoid in 1871.
Sir William Gull's fame rested mainly on his success as a clinical practitioner; as he said himself, he was "a clinical physician or nothing." This success must be largely ascribed to his remarkable powers of observation, and to the great opportunities he enjoyed for gaining experience of disease.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/William_Withey_Gull.html   (420 words)

  
 Gull - LoveToKnow 1911
The largest species of the group are the glaucous gull and greater fl-backed gull, L.
Many of the gulls congregate in vast numbers to breed, whether on rocky cliffs of the sea-coast or on healthy islands in inland waters.
Ross's or the roseate gull, Rhodostethia rosea, forms a well-marked genus, distinguished not so much by the pink tint of its plumage (for that is found in other species) but by its small dove-like bill and wedge-shaped tail.
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 Sir William Withey Gull (www.whonamedit.com)
In 1873 Gull was one of the first to understand that the cause of myxedema is atrophy of the thyroid gland.
Gull died a very wealthy man, being especially able at handling neurotics and his immense success in practice was shown that at his death he left a fortune of 344.0000 pound.
Gull was known for his generous attitude to his patients, advocating the modern view that the object of the medical attention is the patient, not the disease housed in the patient.
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 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - The Life and Possible Deaths of Sir William Gull
William Withey Gull was born on December 31st 1816 aboard the barge "The Dove" which was moored at St Osyth Mill in the parish of St Leonard, Colchester.
In 1837 Gull was accepted as a pupil at Guy's Hospital and this began a association with that establishment which was to continue for the rest of his life.
Gull was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1869 and in 1871 he achieved national prominence when he treated the Prince of Wales for typhus.
www.casebook.org /dissertations/dst-gull.html   (1303 words)

  
 William Gull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the graphic novel From Hell, from Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, he is portrayed as the real Jack the Ripper, being part of a conspiracy to kill four prostitutes with the knowledge of an illegitimate royal child.
In the film adaptation of From Hell, Gull is portrayed as having been secretly driven mad by his stroke, and being spurred on, in his madness, to commit murders whose settings employ Masonic symbolism.
Sir Nigel shares many things with Sir William; he was physician to the royal family, portrayed as being close to the family and close to Prince Edward in particular.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Withey_Gull   (722 words)

  
 CineGeek
Moore proposes the murderer was Sir William Withey Gull, the royal family’s loyal physician.
Gull was also known to have an intense hatred for prostitutes.
Sir William Gull is also shown depth and not merely relegated to a mindless serial killer such as “Michael Myers” from the “Halloween” movie franchise.
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 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Message Boards: William Withey Gull - A Biographical Account (1896)
My grandmother was Florence Gull (born around 1885) and my mother told me stories of her being related to someone in the Jack the Ripper case.
John Gull was a bargemaster, he Captained the 'Dove' Captain Withey was skipper of the 'Amity'.
William Withey Gull was baptised at St Leonards Church Hythe Colchester.
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 From Hell
Gull is a respected figure and member of the Freemasons.
The lives of Gull and other well-to-do people are juxtaposed with that of the prostitutes and other working class citizens.
In typical Moore fashion, the lives of every character is explored, from the upbringing of Gull, the arrogance of the British upper class, the disappointments of Inspector Abberline’s love life (the police detective investigating the murders), to the professional dangers of prostitution, to weave a tapestry of the underbelly of the Victorian era.
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 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - William Withey Gull - A Biographical Sketch (1896) (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
William Withey Gull was born at Colchester, in the parish of St. Leonard's, on December 31st, 1816.
In figure Sir William Gull was of medium height, and squarely built, of great strength and vigour, and endowed with a power of physical endurance such as alone could have enabled him to do the vast amount of work which he successfully carried out during all his professional life.
Sir William was gifted with a strong power of sympathy with suffering in every form, but more especially was this the case when the sufferer belonged to one of three classes -the young, the aged, or the sick ; these, he said, must always be helped.
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 GULL, SIR WILLIAM WITHEY - Online Information article about GULL, SIR WILLIAM WITHEY
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Wales during his attack of typhoid in 1871.
Sir William Gull's fame rested mainly on his success as a clinical practitioner; as he said himself, he was " a clinical physician or nothing." This success must be largely ascribed to his remarkable See also:
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 pokinroundoxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In addition to keeping the girl and her three friends quiet, he avails himself of the opportunity to reassert patriarchal order through a series of savage though surgically precise acts of murder.
Its scariest chapters are those in which Sir Gull waxes philosophical on the Dionysian architecture of Nicholas Hawksmoor, whose Christian churches, with their Freemasonic and pagan overtones, loomed large in London's 19th-century cityscape.
For Gull, these buildings represent "the war 'twixt sun and moon," with London's architecture mapping patriarchy's struggle to overcome a matriarchal heritage that extends back to when Brutus of Troy seized Britain in the name of the moon goddess Diana.
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 Salon Books | "From Hell"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As is standard practice in the industry's nearly feudal system, he didn't own "Watchmen" or any other characters he invented for DC, and he objected to the publisher putting "Suggested for Mature Readers" labels on his books, a criticized practice that paralleled the labeling of rock albums at the time.
Though Gull was in his 70s in 1888 and had suffered a stroke, he had the surgical skill deemed necessary to commit the crimes.
While Gull arises from a luxurious bed, Chapman awakens in a seedy flophouse, sleeping along the same bench with other destitute women.
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In Hawksmoor's work Gull sees something of a physical confirmation of Masonic myths and magic, an endorsement of his "special task;" in one startling scene, Gull has his coachman, Netley, connect all of Hawksmoor's churches on a London map with a pencil, a shape which forms a pentagram.
As Gull sinks deeper into his madness, the murders of the five prostitutes follow a pattern of ritual disembowelment central to the Abiff myth.
It's all pretty complex and very unpleasant, but Gull is such a fully fleshed-out character that it's impossible not to be entranced by him even as his crimes become ghastlier.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol15/issue12/books.jackhell.html   (1471 words)

  
 Gull - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Gull, common name for approximately 47 species of long-winged, web-footed seabirds, the most familiar birds of the seashore.
Herring Gull, common name for a large gull.
It is about 60 cm (24 in) long, silver-grey above and white below.
au.encarta.msn.com /Gull.html   (117 words)

  
 Catalogue of the Models   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Within that catalogue, pages 163 to 167 deal with the subject of melasma, and include further notes on Addison`s disease, including his last case.
There is also a case treated by Sir William Withey Gull (Queen Victoria`s personal physician), with Charles Hilton Fagge as pathologist.
William Gull was quoted in Addison`s book as treating James Jackson in 1851 also (case 2).
wehner.org /addison/fagge/index.htm   (187 words)

  
 October 24 in Psychology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
1873 — English physician Sir William Withey Gull presented the first thorough description of anorexia nervosa in an address before the Clinical Society of London.
Gull made an earlier preliminary report of the syndrome at the 1868 meeting of the British Medical Association, at Oxford.
A novel sidelight to Gull's career is that he is occasionally mentioned as possibly being the notorious London murderer, "Jack the Ripper."
www.cwu.edu /~warren/calendar/cal1024.html   (520 words)

  
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The symbolism is obvious of course: the catchers are the Ripperologists while the gull is the elusive identity of Jack (it does not stand solely for Sir William Withey Gull).
It seems that Sir Gull was one of the first doctors to recognise the condition of anorexia nervosa and diagnosing it as a mental, not physical, condition.
The rest of his segment involves an examination of editorial illustrations from PUNCH which, though interesting, is not particularly noteworthy.
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 all things William
I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.
I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value.
Philology: the generally accepted comprehensive name for the study of the word (Greek, logos), or languages; it designates that branch of knowledge which deals with human speech, and with all that speech discloses as to the nature and history of man.
allthingswilliam.com /words.html   (1597 words)

  
 Special Collections Digital Library - Roscoe R Robinson History of Nephrology Collection
Gull, William Withey (1816-1890), and Sutton, Henry Gawen (1837-1891).
Including a section on retinitis in Bright's disease by William F. Norris.
A collection of the published writings of William Withey Gull.
www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /biolib/hc/robinson/collection.html   (2804 words)

  
 Alan Moore
The murders are an occult ritual, a complex sacrifice using Victorian London itself as an altar.
Gull is reason's lunatic, carrying out an act of magic to enforce the rational, masculine hegemony.
Following the murder of Marie Kelly, Gull claims to have "delivered" the twentieth century, a mysterious statement perhaps clarified by the conception of Adolf Hitler, depicted at the beginning of Chapter 5, which must have taken place in the month of the murders.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Alan_Moore   (5901 words)

  
 Census UK Wliiam Withey Gull
The first notion of Gulls involvement in the 'Ripper' case was in a book appeared in 1962 by Phillippe Jullien's book, Edward VII.
Thomas Stowell published an article in 1970 accusing Prince Edward of being Jack the Ripper, basing his theory upon some papers of Sir William Gull.
Stowell claimed that Gull was Edwards's doctor and was treating the prince for syphilis.
www.censusuk.co.uk /gull.htm   (202 words)

  
 village voice > books > Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell From Hell by Richard Gehr
Gull is obsessed by London's phallic obelisks and overpowering churches, which displaced earlier pagan symbology.
Moore's writing is complemented by Campbell's often staggeringly effective fl-and-white renditions of stiff-backed Victorians swimming against the tide of history (as his parents discuss his future, young William Gull eviscerates a mouse; elsewhere, the queen mother disappears into Rothko-esque fields of gray).
His beautifully proportioned pages create a dark rhythm of line and panel that fuses perfectly with Moore's sense of living myth.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0009/gehr.shtml   (893 words)

  
 Gull Family Photo : Sir William Withey Gull - AncientFaces.com
Gull Family Photo : Sir William Withey Gull - AncientFaces.com
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Modern anorexia nervosa first came to light in the 1870’s, and was brought about in part, by the changes in family life caused by the Industrial Revolution (Brumberg 3).
It was fostered in the bourgeois households of the times, and was a product of “popular ideas about gender and class” as well as “material comfort” and the “sexual division of labor (3).” The condition was given its name by Sir William Withey Gull in 1874 and was considered “an overwhelmingly female condition” (Hepworth 26-27).
Although cases of anorexia nervosa were observed in a small number of the male population, Dr. Gull held these abnormalities in low regard, as the overwhelming majority were women; women at that time were supposedly well known as having “irrational dispositions” that lead all too effortlessly to conditions such as anorexia (29).
web.pdx.edu /~bmp/anorexia.doc   (2843 words)

  
 Comments on 12955 | MetaFilter
Of course, Alan Moore admits he took his theory pretty much part-and-parcel from a book by Stephen Knight.
Anyway, call me a sentimentalist, but Sir William Withey Gull will always be Jack the Ripper to me. "Come along, Notley."
Although admittedly, after watching In Search of Jack the Ripper ("with Leonard Nimoy kickin' out the jams"), I was fairly certain that Saucy Jack was the Duke of Clarence.
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 The Genetics of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease -- Vaidya et al. 87 (12): 5385 -- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & ...
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Cox NJ, Wapelhorst B, Morrison VA, Johnson L, Pinchuk L, Spielman RS, Todd JA, Concannon P 2001 Seven regions of the genome show evidence of linkage to type 1 diabetes in a consensus analysis of 767 multiplex families.
jcem.endojournals.org /cgi/content/full/87/12/5385   (9218 words)

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