Abstract

John Thomas Arlidge was a prominent alienist in the mid 19th century. After thirteen years involvement with asylum psychiatry in London he changed direction to become a physician in North Staffordshire, achieving fame as an expert in occupational disorders. This paper describes his contributions to the psychiatric literature and suggests that disaffection with the way psychiatry was progressing may have led to his change of career.

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  • John Thomas Arlidge was a prominent alienist in the mid 19th century

  • Those physicians who became well established in the new speciality of asylum psychiatry in the 19th century - men like Connolly, Bucknill, Browne, Maudsley and Clouston remained alienists for the whole of their lives

  • By this time Arlidge had been physician to the North Staffordshire Infirmary for seven years and was no longer practically involved in the issues of asylum psychiatry

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John Thomas Arlidge was a prominent alienist in the mid 19th century. After thirteen years involvement with asylum psychiatry in London he changed direction to become a physician in North Staffordshire, achieving fame as an expert in occupational disorders. Those physicians who became well established in the new speciality of asylum psychiatry in the 19th century - men like Connolly, Bucknill, Browne, Maudsley and Clouston remained alienists (so-called because their patients were, by virtue of their illness, alie nated from society) for the whole of their lives.

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