Maudsley

Maudsley, HENRY, a prominent student of mental pathology, was born near Giggleswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire, February 5, 1835, and was educated at Giggleswick grammar-school and University College, London. He graduated M.D. at the university of London in 1857, was for a time physician to the Manchester Royal Lunatic Asylum, but returned to London in 1862 to be a consulting physician. In 1870, now an F.R.C.P., he was Gulstonian lecturer; and from 1869 to 1879 he filled the chair of Medical Jurisprudence at University College. His works are The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind (1867), Responsibility in Mental Disease (1872), Body and Will (1883), and Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings (1886).