Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Henry Maudsley
Born: February 5, 1835
Died: January 23, 1918 (aged 82)
Bio: Henry Maudsley FRCP was a pioneering British psychiatrist, commemorated in the Maudsley Hospital in London and in the annual Maudsley Lecture of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Known for:
- The pathology of mind (1879)
- Responsibility in mental disease (1874)
- Physiology and pathology of mind (1867)
- Natural Causes And Supernatural Seemings (1886)
- Heredity, variation and genius