The AJI remained the property of the Utica State Hospital, though it served as the official publication of the Superintendents' Association (see below). In 1840, he published another monograph, An Inquiry into Diseases and Functions of The Brain, Spinal Cord and Nerves (New-York). He believed that insanity often resulted from ‘moral’ causes such as worries and anxieties. His book, Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation on Health (Hartford, 1832), went into three editions. In 1840, he became Superintendent of the Hartford Retreat, and in 1842, moved to the Utica State Hospital, the first public mental hospital in New York State.īrigham had published on mental illness prior to AJI. He spent the following year in Europe to further his medical education and returned to Massachusetts in 1829 to establish a practice. Amariah Brigham (1798-1849) was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts and received his medical training at the N.Y.
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