Browne, W. A. F. - What Asylums Were, Are and Ought to Be

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1837
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Dr W. A. F. Browne's series of five lectures delivered to the Managers of Montrose Lunatic Asylum. Inscription on first page reads 'with warm affection Xmas 1884, W. A. F. Browne.'

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1837

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1 volume

Biographical note

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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