Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1511

JOHN CONOLLY (1794-1866) An inquiry concerning the indications of insanity, with suggestions for the better protection and care of the insane. Printed for J. Taylor 1830 vi, 496 pp. 22.1 cm.

Conolly, a native of England, received his medical education at Edinburgh and was a private practitioner and professor of medicine at the University of London before he decided to devote himself to psychiatry. He began his work in psychiatry in 1839 when he became physician-superintendent of the Hanwell Asylum in Middlesex County. His name is inseparably linked to what is generally acknowledged as the major advance in the history of the medical care of the insane: the elimination of mechanical restraints. Conolly also made many first-rate contributions to the psychiatric literature, and in the present work, one of his most important, he discusses the condition of British asylums, insanity and its causes, and ways to improve the care of the insane.

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 382