Browne, W. A. F. - Cottage Asylums

Article reprinted from the Medical Critic and Psychological Journal. Inscription on front page reads 'with kindest love, April 1861'.

1861

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Dr W. A. F. Browne was Medical Superintendent at Montrose Royal Asylum from 1834 to 1838. In 1838 he took the post of Medical Superintendent at the newly completed Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries where he remained until 1857. In 1857 he was appointed as a Medical Commissioner for the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland. He held this post until 1870 when failing health forced him to retire.

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