Testimonials in favour of Thomas S. Clouston, M.D. : medical superintendent of the Cumberland and Westmorland Asylum, Garlands, Carlisle : formerly senior assistant physician to the Royal Edinburgh Asylum.

  • Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of Thomas S. Clouston, M.D. : medical superintendent of the Cumberland and Westmorland Asylum, Garlands, Carlisle : formerly senior assistant physician to the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the patients committed to his care as happy a home in the Asylum as their individual cases would admit. Dr. Clouston’s general medical qualifications are of a high order, but he has especially devoted himself to the study of mental disease, and with so much success that I am satisfied he cannot fail to attain to a prominent place among that distinguished body of men who in the present age have done so much to advance the scientific knowledge of psychological medicine and to render the treatment of Insanity more humane and more successful. WM. B. PAGE, F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary; Consulting Surgeon to the Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum. From the Very Reverend the Dean of Carlisle. December 30, 1871. My Dear Sir,—Most reluctantly do I send you this letter, you will be an irreparable loss to our Asylum, and an invaluable gain to any like institution whither you may go. Well do I remember the incidents of your wise and kind management of your insane patients, which your late esteemed Chaplain now in heaven, Mr. Simpson, was wont to tell me. How well he co-operated with you, you are at all times ready to attest. To your professional powers I will not venture to refer, being a most incompetent judge of them, but as a whole I feel assured that medically, morally, or religiously, you will never disappoint those who may be so fortunate as to engage your services. Believe me to remain very truly yours, FRANCIS CLOSE. Dr. Clouston. From C. A. Lockhart Robhrtson, M.D., Cantab., F.R.C.P., Medical Visitor to the Lord Chancellor ; formerly Medical Superintendent of the Sussex County Asylum ; Editor of the Journal of Mental Science, etc., etc. 9 Hanover Square, W., December 30, 1871. My Dear Dr. Clouston,—In reply to your letter of the 29th, I can with great confidence recommend your claims to the notice of