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DANIEL HACK TUKE (1827-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 365 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL HACK See also:TUKE (1827-1895)  , younger See also:brother of See also:James Hack See also:Tuke, was See also:born at See also:York on the 19th of See also:April 1827 . In 1845 he entered the See also:office of a See also:solicitor at See also:Bradford, but in 1847 began See also:work at the York See also:Retreat . Entering St See also:Bartholomew's See also:Hospital in See also:London in 185o, he became a member of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons in 1852, and graduated M.D. at See also:Heidelberg in 1853 . In 1858, in collaboration with J . C . Bucknill, he published a See also:Manual of Psychological See also:Medicine, which was for many years regarded as a See also:standard work on lunacy . In 1853 he visited a number of See also:foreign asylums, and later returning to York he became visiting physician to the York Retreat and the York Dispensary, lecturing also to the York School of Medicine on See also:mental diseases . In 1859 See also:ill See also:health obliged him to give up his work, and for the next fourteen years he lived at See also:Falmouth . In 1875 he settled in London as a specialist in mental diseases . In 188o he became See also:joint editor of the See also:Journal of Mental See also:Science . He died on the 5th of See also:March 1895 . Among his See also:works were Illustrations of the See also:Influence of the Mind on the See also:Body (1872); See also:Insanity in See also:Ancient and See also:Modern See also:Life (1878); See also:History of the Insane in the See also:British Isles (1882); Sleepwalking and See also:Hypnotism (1884); Past and See also:Present See also:Provision for the Insane Poor in See also:Yorkshire (1889); See also:Dictionary of Psychological Medicine (1892) .

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