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Amariah Brigham was born on December 26, 1798 and was the son of John Brigham of New Marlboro, Massachussets. He was orphaned at age 11.
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Amariah Brigham was born on December 26, 1798 and was the son of John Brigham of New Marlboro, Massachussets. He was orphaned at age 11.
On the death of his father when the boy was only eleven years of age, Amariah was taken to live with an uncle, a physician, who promised to educate him as a doctor. Unfortunately his uncle died a year later so he was obliged to shift for himself and finally found a place in Albany as a clerk in a book-store, where he spent the next three years. Then he equipped himself as a doctor by study in the offices of Dr. E. C. Peet of New Marlboro and Dr. Plumb of Canaan, Connecticut, besides private study and a year spent in attending lectures in New York.
At the time of attending lectures in New York, when almost twenty-one, Amariah Brigham commenced practise in Enfield, but moved after two years to Greenfield, Massachussets, where he practised for seven years. At the end of this period he took a trip abroad but after some months of foreign travel returned to his practise in Greenfield. A little later inducements offered in Hartford caused him to remove thither.
In 1837, growing tired of his strenuous practise, he went to New York to accept the professorship of anatomy and surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, but remained only a year and a half, preferring his active life as a physician in Hartford.
In 1840 he became a candidate for the office of physician and superintendent of the Retreat for the Insane in Hartford and received the position, only to relinquish it in the fall of 1842 for a similar appointment at the New York State Lunatic Asylum, where he founded the American Journal of Insanity in July 1844. There he remained until his death.
His writings show him to have had a graceful diction. The first book he published, entitled Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation on Health (1832), was designed to show the evil effects of beginning to cultivate children's minds too early. It was well received, reaching a third edition in this country, while Scotch editions issued in Glasgow and Edinburgh by Dr. Robert Macnish and James Simpson, Esq. , had previously appeared abroad.
In the same year, he also published A Treatise on Epidemic Cholera which contained little original matter but was published as a compendium of the existing knowledge of this disease, while in 1840 he wrote An Inquiry Concerning the Diseases and Functions of the Brain, the Spinal Cord, and Nerves, which soon found a ready sale and was favorably received by the profession.
Some years previously he had written Observations on the Influence of Religion on the Health of Mankind (1835) which he hoped would have some influence in discouraging fanatical conduct inimical to the religion of Christ and injurious to the health and physical advancement of mankind. His last writing was published as a small duodecimo volume which was entitled the Asylum Souvenir. It consisted of aphorisms and maxims to aid in the restoration and preservation of health.
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Amariah Brigham subsequently wrote on various health issues and taught before becoming superintendent of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane (later known as the Institute of Living) in Connecticut. At the time, many institutions for the mentally ill were known for their abusive treatment and deplorable conditions. Brigham, who believed that most mental illness could be cured, enacted practices and policies that derived from his advocacy of moral treatment, which had originated in Europe in the 18th century.
The approach called for the creation of a respectful and nurturing environment similar to a domestic home while encouraging physical activity and various leisure pursuits, such as reading. Brigham also encouraged attendants to assume roles that would later be filled by trained therapists. The reforms he instituted became central to the era’s asylum movement and were widely influential.
Amariah Brigham was a member of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane.
Amariah Brigham was married January 23, 1833, to Susan C. Root of Greenfield.