Dedication

pp v-vi

PREFACE

pp vii-xii

Contents

pp xiii-xxii

I - Early life and education

pp 1-7

II - Resigned his Professorship in University College after holding it for about four years

pp 8-18

III - Dr. Conolly enters on his duties as Resident Physician in Hanwell Asylum, 1st of June, 1839

pp 19-39

IV - Resignation as Resident Physician at Hanwell

pp 40-51

V - The difficulties with which Dr. Conolly was beset, while establishing the non-restraint system in Hanwell Asylum

pp 52-54

VI - Observations on the neglect of practical teaching of insanity

pp 55-65

VII - In his lectures, and in his Indications of Insanity, Dr. Conolly in the habit of pointing out the assistance of phrenology in the treatment of Lunacy

pp 66-72

VIII - Importance of a Well-directed system of education in developing and strengthening the mental faculties in girls

pp 73-75

IX - Ready acceptance of non-restraint by Medical Superintendents of asylums

pp 76-87

X - Defects in organization of our asylums

pp 88-101

XI - Middle-class asylums

pp 102-109

XII - Earlswoodm National institution for the protection of the idiotic, and training of imbecile children

pp 110-125

XIII - FOREIGN ASYLUMS: France

pp 126-156

XIV - Non-restraint estalished by Dr. Conolly thiry years ago

pp 157-166

XV - Dr. Conolly's health began to decline in Hanwell

pp 167-175

XVI - Failure of mental energy may be the consequence of the natural decay of the system, or of over mental work, which may occur at any age

pp 176-183

XVII - Dr. Conolly, a man of great natural talents and cultivated mind

pp 184-193

XVIII - Dr. Conolly, one of the original members of the British Medical and Surgical Association

pp 194-202

XIX - Engaged during early professional life in litcrary works, chiefly medical, with his friend Sir John Forbesm &c

pp 203-212

XX - Dr. Arthur Mitchell's opinion of Dr. conolly's position as a medical psychologist

pp 213-223

CONCLUSION

pp 223-226

APPENDIX

APPENDIX A - Notes on Continental Asylums

pp 227-255

APPENDIX B - Treatment of Insane in the Colonies

pp 256-296

APPENDIX C - Note on state of the Insane in India

pp 297-298