Amariah Brigham

Amariah Brigham, M.D. (From "Images from the History of Medicine," National Library of Medicine.

Amariah Brigham (December 26, 1798 in New Marlborough, Massachusetts – September 8. 1849 in Utica, New York) was an American psychiatrist and one the founding members in 1844 of the The Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, which eventually became The American Psychiatric Association. While serving as the first director of the Utica Psychiatric Center, Dr. Brigham launched and became the first editor of its official journal, The American Journal of Insanity (now called The American Journal of Psychiatry).

Selected Works

• Remarks on the influence of mental cultivation and mental excitement upon health (2d ed., Boston, 1833), bound with Observations on the Influence of Religion upon the Health and Physical Welfare of Mankind. Facsimile ed., 1973, 2 vols. in 1, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1125-4.
• A treatise on epidemic cholera : including an historical account of its origin and progress, to the present period (1832)
• An inquiry into diseases and functions of the brain, spinal cord and nerves (1840)

Sources

• The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 4

External links

• American Psychiatric Association
• American Journal of Psychiatry
• Hunt, Ebenezer Kingsbury; Goodrich, Chauncey Enoch (1858). A Biographical Sketch of Amariah Brigham, M.D., late superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N.Y.. Utica, New York: W. O. McClure. ISBN 9780795007804. http://books.google.com/books?id=A0EXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=%22Biographical+Sketch+of+Amariah+Brigham%22&hl=en&ei=M_0dTom8A6PL0QHX-uz6Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2011-07-13.