Richard Poole (physician)
Richard Poole (1783–1871) was a Scottish physician,[1] psychiatrist, and phrenologist.[2]
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Life
Poole was born in Edinburgh, though from an English background.[3] He graduated M.D. at the University of St Andrews in 1805.[1] He was editor of the New Edinburgh Review, and published articles promoting phrenology in it, in the early 1820s;[4] it existed 1821 to 1823.[5] Poole was also first editor of the Phrenological Journal.[6] Poole joined the editorial staff of the Encyclopædia Edinensis under James Millar.[7]
From 1820 Poole campaigned for a new infirmary in Edinburgh.[8] In 1825 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.[3] In the late 1830s he was a pioneer advocate of mental health reform,[9] and in 1838 he became superintendent of the Montrose Asylum, succeeding W. A. F. Browne. He remained at Montrose until 1845. He then kept a private asylum at Middlefield, Aberdeenshire.[3]
Poole died at Coupar Angus.[3]
Works
- An Essay on Education (1825).[10] In this work, from the Encyclopædia Edinensis, Poole acknowledges help in early life from Archibald Alison. He advocated education in cases of mental retardation.[11]
- A Letter to Andrew Duncan, Senior, M.D. ... Regarding the Establishment of a New Infirmary (1825).[12] Pamphlet addressed to Andrew Duncan, the elder on the infirmary question; Duncan replied to the agitation for a new infirmary in a letter to William Fettes.[13]
- Report on Examination of Medical Practitioners (1833)
- Memoranda regarding the Royal Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary, and Dispensary, of Montrose (1841)[14]
He is credited with dramas, including "Willie Armstrong" performed in Edinburgh in 1829.[15][16]
Poole also wrote for the Edinburgh Encyclopædia and Encyclopædia Britannica.[3] A list of publications appeared in Scottish Notes and Queries.[17]
Family
An epitaph gives Jane Caird as Poole's wife; it also records his dates as 1781 to 1870.[18] Their children included Samuel Wordsworth Poole, a physician and episcopal clergyman.[19]
References
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- ↑ James Millar (1827) Encyclopedia Edinensis; or, Dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature vol. 1, p. vi.
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- ↑ John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson (editors), Scottish Notes and Queries (1888), p. 40; archive.org.
- ↑ Alexander Macdonald Munro, Records of Old Aberdeen vol. 2 (1909), p. 248; archive.org.
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