TULLY, William, physician, born in Saybrook, Connecticut, 18 November, 1785; died in Springfield, Massachusetts, 28 February, 1859. He was graduated at Yale in 1806, and, after studying medicine in Philadelphia, settled in practice in Milford, Connecticut Subsequently he removed to Upper Middletown (now Cromwell), where he became intimate with Dr. Thomas Miner, whose views on the nature and treatment of spotted fever he adopted. In 1824 he was called to the presidency of the Vermont academy of medicine in Castleton, Vermont, where he also lectured on the theory and practice of medicine. He removed to Albany in 1826, and was associated with Dr. Alden March in the practice of medicine. In 1829 he settled in New Haven, where he was appointed professor of materia medica in the medical department of Yale, which chair he held until 1842, when he resigned. He removed to Springfield in 1851, and there spent the remainder of his life in poverty. Dr. Tully was distinguished as a botanist, and was regarded as one of the most learned and thoroughly scientific physicians in New England. He contributed to the medical journals of his time, and assisted in the revision of Webster's "Dictionary of the English Language" (editions of 1840 and 1847). With Dr. Thomas Miner he published "Essays upon Fever and other Medical Subjects" (Middletown, 1823), and he was the author of "Materia Medica, or Pharmacology and Therapeutics" (Springfield, 1857-'8).