The success of Thurnam’s work can be seen in innumerable publications, as, for example, W. He was an original member (1841) of the Medico-Psychological Association and president in 18. Thurnam contributed to the growing professional organization within psychiatric medicine, using such organization to promote his ideas and his standard questionnaire. Thurnam also recognized that such statistical information had to be standardized, and he devised a questionnaire for use at the Retreat. At a period when nonrestraint care was being generally introduced into asylums, when many clinical investigations were being made into psychiatric illnesses, and when numerous new drugs were being tried (at least in the 1860’s), a statistical approach to results was essential for making assessments. In medicine his most important work was Observations and Essays on the Statistics of Insanity (London, 1845), which played an immensely important role in the application of statistics to psychiatry. Thurnam’s activities in psychiatry and anthropology mirrored widespread current interest in these subjects, and his studies were a powerful stimulus at the time, even if they are rarely remembered today. His relevant medical appointments were as medical superintendent at the celebrated asylum the Retreat, at York, between 18, and thereafter at the Wiltshire County Asylum, Devizes. Subsequently, he studied medicine and received his first qualification in 1834. Thurnam, as the son of a Quaker family, had a characteristically thorough early education. Devizes, England, 24 September 1873), psychiatric medicine, anthropology. ( b, Lingcroft, near York, England, 28 December 1810 d.
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