Abstract
The name of John Conolly, writes his obituarist in the Journal of Mental Science [12 (1866): 146] “liveth for ever more.” As a reformer he will go down in history as one of the most distinguished men of his age, to be mentioned in the same breath, say, as John Howard, Thomas Clarkson and Lord Shaftesbury. As a psychiatrist he will be identified for all time with the non-restraint system after its translation from France to England. “There is no asylum in the world,” he opined, “in which all mechanical restraints may not be abolished not only with safety, but with incalculable advantage.”
Highlights
The name of John Conolly, writes his obituarist in the Journal of Menial Science [12 (1866): 146]"liveth for ever more." As a reformer he will go down in history as one of the most distinguished men of his age, to be mentioned in the same breath, say. as John Howard, Thomas Clarkson and Lord Shaftesbury
In 1843. at the third annual meeting of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, a precursor of our College, he was invited to take the chair, and for the year 1858 he was elected president, the fifth to be so honoured after that office was established in 1854
He was visually commemorated in a portrait paintedby Sir John Watson Gordon, RA, and in 1866a marble bust was executed by Benzoni—awork of art which is the occasion of this eulogy
Summary
The name of John Conolly, writes his obituarist in the Journal of Menial Science [12 (1866): 146]"liveth for ever more." As a reformer he will go down in history as one of the most distinguished men of his age, to be mentioned in the same breath, say. as John Howard, Thomas Clarkson and Lord Shaftesbury. John Conolly (1794-1866): The Return of the Wanderer The name of John Conolly, writes his obituarist in the Journal of Menial Science [12 (1866): 146]"liveth for ever more." As a reformer he will go down in history as one of the most distinguished men of his age, to be mentioned in the same breath, say.
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