John Cargyll Shaw

John Cargyll Shaw (September 25, 1845, in St. Ann's Bay – January 23, 1900, in Brooklyn) was an American psychiatrist and neurologist.

He received his first education from his mother and later attended a boarding school at Walton, Jamaica.

At the age of 17 he went to New York and was employed in the drug house on Pine Street.

During his career, he held positions of neurologist to the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital and consulting neurologist to St. Catherine's, St. John's, Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island College and Hudson River State Hospital.

He was among the first to advocate and apply non-restraint in the insane hospitals of the United States.