John Conolly
English psychiatrist (1794-1866) · Doctors · Died at 71
John Conolly was an English psychiatrist. He published the volume Indications of Insanity in 1830.
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In 1839, he was appointed resident physician to the Middlesex County Asylum where he introduced the principle of non-restraint into the treatment of the insane, which led to non-restraint became accepted practice throughout England. With colleagues he founded the 'Provincial Medical and Surgical Association', and founded the 'British and Foreign Medical Review, or, A Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine'.
