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of the question have not only been valuable acquisitions to the pro- 

 fession, but they have also been well adapted for the diffusion of this 

 kind of knowledge among general readers. 



IIknry Maudsley was born at Rome, near Settle, in Yorkshire, in 

 1835, and is, consequently, now but forty years of age. When his 

 early academic studies were completed he chose the profession of a 

 physician as a vocation, and entered upon the study of medicine at 

 University College, London. His career as a medical student was 

 eminently successful, and he obtained the highest honors in the dif- 

 ferent classes, and graduated M. D. at the University of London in 

 1856, at twenty-one years of age, having also obtained a scholarship, 

 with the title of " University Medical Scholar." Selecting mental 

 pathology as his medical specialty, he became resident physician and 

 superintendent of the Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital, a position 

 which he held from 1859 to 1862. Resigning this appointment in 

 1862, he yielded to the temptations of the metropolis, and entered on 

 a consulting practice in London. The speedy recognition of his pro- 

 fessional claims led to his election as Fellow of the Royal College of 

 Physicians in 1869, and the next year he had the honor of an appoint- 

 ment as Gulstonian Lecturer. Dr. Maudsley is Professor of Medical 

 Jurisprudence in University College, London, and Consulting Phy- 

 sician to the West London Hospital. He has been President of the 

 Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and 

 is now, as he has been for some years, editor of that able periodical, 

 the Journal of Mental Science. His labors have been appreciated on 

 the Continent, and he has been elected Honorary Member of 1 lie Med- 

 ico-Psychological Society of Paris, and of the Imperial Society of 

 Physicians of Vienna, etc. 



Dr. Maudsley's most important work is " The Physiology and 

 Pathology of Mind," a standard treatise for the profession, and a 

 repertory of interesting facts an able exposition of mental phenomena 

 in their organic relations. This work has passed through several 

 editions, as has also the lesser volume which he subsequently issued, 

 " The Gulstonian Lectures on Body and Mind." His contributions 

 to the Journal of Mental Science have been numerous and important; 

 and his last work, "Responsibility in Mental Disease," written for the 

 " International Scientific Series," is an important monograph which has 

 been widely read, and has contributed to extend the author's repu- 

 tation. 



Dr. Maudsley married the youngest daughter of the late Dr. John 

 Conolly, whose name has been made eminent as the physician who first 

 introduced into England, and carried out successfully, at Hanwell, 

 that great reform, the non-restraint system in the management of 

 lunatics. 



