Edward Long Fox (psychiatrist)

Edward Long Fox (26 April 1761 – 1835) was an English psychiatrist. He established an insane asylum at Brislington House, near Bristol, England, and classified the patients according to social class as well as behavioural presentation.[1]

Edward Long Fox
Edward Long Fox
Born26 April 1761
Falmouth, Cornwall, England
Died1835
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Known forPioneer of mental health-care
Scientific career
FieldsPsychiatry

He was a member of the Fox family of Falmouth, one of the 11 children of Joseph Fox (1729–1784) and Elizabeth Hingston, his wife. He graduated and MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1784. Following the death of John Till Adams in 1786 he cared for many of Till Adams patients in the local Quaker community.[2] Around the same time he joined Bristol Infirmary as a physician. He worked there for 30 years.[3]

In 1830, he purchased Knightstone Island in Weston-super-Mare to create a therapeutic spa with a range of hot, cold and chemical baths.[1]

Family

Twice married, Fox had 15 daughters and 8 sons.[4]

References
  1. Smith, L. (2008). "A gentleman's mad-doctor in Georgian England: Edward Long Fox and Brislington House" (PDF). History of Psychiatry. 19 (2): 163–84. doi:10.1177/0957154X07081136. PMID 19127837. S2CID 28304699.
  2. Hall, Walker (1919). "Contemporary Medicine from the Standpoint of Pathology". The Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal. XXXVI (137 December 1919): 105–117.
  3. "Parks and Gardens UK, Dr Edward Long Fox". Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  4. Fox, Barclay (2008). Barclay Fox's Journal. Cornwall Editions Limited. p. 27. ISBN 9781904880318.


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