# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-battie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:00:53.797Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-battie"
name: "William Battie"
slug: "william-battie"
description: "William Battie was an English physician who published, in 1758, A Treatise on Madness, a highly influential book on the use of institutionalisation and shock therapy as methods of treating mental illness. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1764."
tagline: "British physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_William_Battie._Wellcome_M0006690.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1703-09-01"
deathDate: "1776-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.18
  momentum:             2.045454545454545
  historical:           4.80684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ويليام باتي"
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    title: "William Battie"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump