Dr Robert Gardiner Hill
We regret to record the death of Dr Robert Gardiner Hill, who died suddenly at Earl’s Court House, Old Brompton, on the 30th of May last. Following in the wake of Pinel, Dr. Gardiner Hill was the first in this country to abolish me- chanical restraint in the treatment of insanity. His example was followed by Dr Conolly, to whose philanthropic efforts we are mainly indebted for the carrying out of the principle in its details. Like every good thing in this world, it has been abused, and the majority of alienists are now agreed that there are certain cases which can be much more effectually managed by the use of mechanical appliances.
Dr Gardiner Hill was born at Louth, and was 67 years of age at the time of his decease. He was formerly Medical Superintendent of Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, and latterly Resi- dent Physician and joint-proprietor of Earl’s Court Asylum, Old Brompton. He published A Concise History of Entire Aboli- tion of Mechanical Restraint in Treatment of the Insane and of Introduct ion, Success, and Final Triumph of Non-restraint System; Lunacy, its Past and its Present; and he also con- tributed papers of psychological interest to the Lancet, Medical Press, &c.
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