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JOHN CONOLLY (1794-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 964 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:CONOLLY (1794-1866)  , See also:English physician, was See also:born at See also:Market Rasen, See also:Lincolnshire, of an Irish See also:family, on the 27th of May 1794 . He graduated M.D. at See also:Edinburgh in 1821 . After practising at See also:Lewes, See also:Chichester and See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon successively, he was appointed See also:professor of the practice of See also:medicine at University See also:College, See also:London, in 1828 . In 183o he published a See also:work on the Indications of See also:Insanity, and soon afterwards settled at See also:Warwick . In 1832 in co-operation with See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Hastings and Sir See also:John See also:Forbes, he founded a small medical association with a view to raising the See also:standard of provincial practice . In later years this See also:grew in importance and membership, and finally became the See also:British Medical Association . In 1839 he was electedresident physician to the See also:Middlesex See also:County See also:Asylum at Hanwelr In this capacity he made his name famous by carrying out in its entirety and on a large See also:scale the principle of non-See also:restraint in the treatment of the insane . This principle had been acted on in two small asylums—See also:William See also:Tuke's See also:Retreat near See also:York„ and the See also:Lincoln Asylum; but it was due to the See also:energy of See also:Conolly in sweeping away all See also:mechanical restraint in the See also:great See also:metropolitan lunatic See also:hospital, in the See also:face of strong opposition, that the principle became diffused over the whole See also:kingdom, and accepted as fundamental . In 1844 he ceased to be See also:resident physician at See also:Hanwell, but remained visiting physician until 1852 . He died on the 5th of See also:March 1866 at Hanwell, where in the later See also:part of his See also:life he had a private asylum . His See also:works include Construction and See also:Government of Lunatic Asylums (1847); The Treatment of the Insane without Mechanical Restraints (1856); and an See also:Essay on See also:Hamlet (1863) .

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