John Cargyll Shaw

Who was John Cargyll Shaw?

John Cargyll Shaw – American psychiatrist and neurologist.

Son of John Shaw and Christine née Drew. Received his first education from his mother, later attended a boarding school at Walton, Jamaica. At the age of seventeen he came to New York. He was employed in the drug house on Pine Street. Graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1874.

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 president of the New York Neurological Society.

He was among the first who advocated and applied non-restraint in the insane hospitals of the United States.