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Rh of the question have not only been valuable acquisitions to the profession, but they have also been well adapted for the diffusion of this kind of knowledge among general readers.

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 different 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 professional 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 appointment as Gulstonian Lecturer. Dr. Maudsley is Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in University College, London, and Consulting Physician 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 the Medico-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 reputation.

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.