Education
Later he received an honorary degree of M. D. from Yale.
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Samuel Bayard Woodward
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He refused the position again in 1834, although he was one of the medical visitors of the institution as long as he remained in the vicinity.
He was one of the medical examiners of the Yale medical school for several years and was offered a position on the faculty, which he declined.
It was his hope to establish an asylum for inebriates, but that dream was never realized.
Before his time there had been no adequate accommodations for the relief or custodial care of the insane, and his success in meeting the problem, like that of Todd in Hartford, caused nation-wide comment.
His publications were confined chiefly to his reports, of which the Massachusetts legislature alone ordered 3, 000 each year, but he also wrote several books, essays, and lyceum lectures.
[Sources include S. A. Fisk, in Boston Medic.
and Surgical Jour. , Jan. 16, 1850; George Chandler, in Am.
Jour.
of Insanity, Oct. 1851; H. A. Kelly and W. L. Burrage, Am.
Biogs.
(1920), which gives the place of birth as Torringford; unpub.
notes of Dr. Henry Barnard in the archives of the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute, Hartford, Connecticut; Woodward's reports on the Massachussets State Lunatic Asylum, Worcester; obituary in Worcester Palladium, Jan. 9, 1850. ]
Connections
In 1815 he married Maria Porter of Hadley.
They had eleven children, eight of whom survived their father.
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Instrumental in founding the Connecticut Retreat for the Insane in Hartford (1824), Woodward traveled all over the state collecting funds for its establishment and was offered the position of superintendent, but urged instead the appointment of his friend, Dr. Eli Todd q.v., whose ideals of love and kindness in the treatment of the insane were similar to his own.
