James Coxe

Controversially (though not at the time) he linked mental illness with a distancing from religion and with a parallel deterioration of the body.

[1] Rather more productively, he was an early campaigner against restraint in asylums,[2] and he advocated greater training of women in the field of medicine.

[6] Coxe studied medicine at Göttingen and Heidelberg universities, and then returned to Edinburgh for his medical degree (MD) which was granted in 1835.

This led to the rebuilding of Craig House, Edinburgh under the direction of Dr Thomas Clouston and Sir Arthur Mitchell.

[8] In 1877 he co-chaired an inquiry into "The Care and Cure of the Insane" jointly with Dr Joseph Mortimer at the request of The Lancet.