John Wyllie

John Wyllie was born in Haddingtonshire in 1844 and obtained his MD from Edinburgh in 1865, having previously worked for two years as a resident at Birmingham General Hospital. After returning to Edinburgh, he was elected a Fellow of the College in 1870 and served as Secretary to the College from 1874 to 1884. He spent most of his career at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he served as Pathologist, Assistant Physician and Physician before being appointed Consulting Physician in 1897. In 1900 he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. His research focused chiefly on the larynx and related disorders. His publications include 'The physiology of the larynx', published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1866, and 'Disorders of speech', published in 1894. He died in Edinburgh on 25 January 1916.