Background
Henry was born on April 18, 1828 in Sutton, Massachussets, United States, the son of Asa and Polly (Putnam) Stearns, and a descendant of Charles Stearns, who became a freeman in Watertown in 1646.
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Henry Putnam Stearns
Edit ProfileEducation
He was fitted for college in Monson, Massachussets, and received the B. A. degree from Yale in 1853, the M. D. degree two years later, studied medicine at Harvard, and finally completed his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Career
On his return to the United States after studies Stearns established himself in private practice in Marlboro, Massachussets, and remained there for three years before going to Hartford, Connecticut, where he made his home until his death.
He achieved some distinction as a general practitioner, and when the Civil War broke out he was made surgeon of the 16t Connecticut Regiment. After three months he became surgeon of volunteers, was on the staff of General Grant, and was discharged from service in August 1865.
During the greater part of that period, he was medical director of United States hospitals, stationed for the most part at St. Louis, Missouri, Nashville, Tennessee, and Paducah, Kentucky.
He spent eight years in general professional work in Hartford after the war, and in 1874 was appointed to succeed Dr. J. S. Butler and Eli Todd, as superintendent of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane. He went abroad to familiarize himself with theory and practice in France and Great Britain, and at Cheadle, England, observed the successes of the "cottage system" which he later established at the Hartford institution. This system permitted patients to be treated without unnecessary limitation of their activities.
He died in 1905.
Achievements
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Henry Putnam Stearns was well-known for his classification of mental disease according to causes and pathology. He also suggested the appointment of physicians to the National Board of Health, and advocated education of the public in the prevention of insanity. For eighteen years he lectured at Yale on mental disease.
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Insanity - Scholar's Choice Edition
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Insanity: Its Causes and Prevention
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Lectures On Mental Diseases: Designed Especially for Medical Students and General Practitioners
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Insanity
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Insanity - Scholar's Choice Edition
Membership
He was a member of the Connecticut Medical Society; he was a charter member of the Hartford Medical Society and of the New England Psychological Society, a member of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, and honorary member of the British Psychological Society and the Boston Medico-Psychological Society.
Connections
He was married to Annie Elizabeth Storrier of Dumfries, Scotland, on August 29, 1857, and they had three children.
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May 27, 1905 (aged 77) -
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Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut, United States -
Nationality
American