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William Battie (sometimes spelt Batty; 1 September 1703 – 13 June 1776) was an English physician who published in 1758 the first lengthy book on the treatment of mental illness, A Treatise on Madness, and by extending methods of treatment to the poor as well as the affluent, helped raise psychiatry to a respectable specialty.
27 de jun. de 2024 · William Battie, resident physician and driving force behind the foundation of St Luke's asylum, published what was probably the first English medical monograph devoted to madness in 1758.
Battie, William (1703-1776). En 1742 se ocupó de la Psiquiatría al ser nombrado administrador del Hospital Bedlam de Londres. Con anterioridad había sido Profesor de Anatomía en Cambridge.
Tres décadas antes de la elaboración de la Instruction de Colombier y Doublet, tuvo lugar una áspera polémica pública entre los médicos londinenses William Battie y John Monro.
8 de ago. de 2007 · William Battie (1703-76) was one of the most eminent psychiatrists of 18th century Britain. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, Battie was a fellow of the Royal Society and a fellow and later president of the Royal College of Physicians.
14 de oct. de 2022 · William Battie (1703-1776) deserves to be better known as he was one of the main drivers towards a more enlightened, more humane approach to managing people with mental illness and he wrote the...
William Battie, M.D., was born at Modbury, in the county of Devon, in 1704, and was the son of the rev. Edward Battie, vicar of that place, formerly an assistant master at Eton, whom he had the misfortune to lose in September, 1714, when only ten years old.
