Dr Joseph TillieFRSE (20 January 1859 – 20 November 1898) was a 19th-century Scottish physician and pharmacologist with a special knowledge of "exotic poisons" such as curare.
He was born in Edinburgh on 20 January 1859, the son of Thomas Tillie, a relatively wealthy tailor with a shop at 369 High Street on the Royal Mile. The family lived at 11 Castle Terrace, a Georgian townhouse viewing onto Edinburgh Castle.[1] He originally trained as a banker and worked as an accountant for the Union Bank of Scotland.[2]
He first took a general degree at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1883, then continued at the University, studying medicine, and graduating in 1886 with an MB ChB with Honours. He spent some time as a pharmacologist, and was also Assistant Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Edinburgh under Professor Thomas Richard Fraser, also being Resident Physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
He stepped down from his multiple roles in 1895 due to ill-health and moved to Springfontein in South Africa to recover.[6] He died in East London on 28 November 1898, aged 38, following a strenuous sea journey.[7] His wife appears to have circulated the tale that he died in South Africa in order to pursue her desire to continue to live there.[6]
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In 1887 he married Jean Lamont Barclay.
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The Pharmacology of Curare (1889) winner of the Gunning-Christison Jubilee Prize for that year
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