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SIR THOMAS SMITH CLOUSTON, a leading Edinburgh psychiatrist, was born on April 22, 1840, at Nist House, Orkney. He was educated first at Aberdeen Grammar School and then at the University of Edinburgh under Goodsir, Syme, Simpson and Laycock. He graduated M.D. in 1861, when he received a gold medal for his thesis on the nervous system of the lobster. After serving four years as assistant physician to the Morningside Asylum, Edinburgh, he was appointed medical superintendent of the Cumberland and Westmorland asylum at Carlisle, where he remained until 1873, when he succeeded Skae as medical superintendent at Morningside and continued in this post until his retirement in 1908. During his period of office he carried out many reforms in the asylum, including rebuilding and the introduction of humane and efficient methods in the treatment of the patients, in addition to making a large number of clinical and pathological observations. Besides being in great demand as a consultant not only in mental disease but also as an expert in forensic medicine, Clouston took an active part in municipal affairs at Edinburgh.
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Sir Thomas Clouston (1840–1915). Nature 145, 619 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145619c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145619c0