title: Robert Gardiner Hill and the non-restraint movement.
abstract: An account is given of the professional life of Robert Gardiner Hill before and after the publication in 1839 of his lecture on the Total Abolition of Restraint in the Treatment of the Insane. The lecture is summarized and an attempt is made to evaluate his work which has been overshadowed by that of John Connolly . This paper was researched before the author came to North America. A library request to check that no recent work had appeared on the history of the restraint controversy produced two papers published in 1978. One roundly advocates restraint (1) the other acknowledges its widespread practice in Canada (2).
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D012149:Restraint, Physical; D006113:United Kingdom