Thomas Joseph Workman Burgess

Thomas Joseph Workman Burgess (11 March 1849 – 18 January 1926) was a Canadian physician, botanist, and author. He served as the president of the American Psychiatric Association from 1904 to 1905. Burgess made important contributions to the formalization of psychiatry at the turn of the 20th century.

Biography

Early life and family Thomas Joseph Workman Burgess was born in March 11, 1849 in Ontario in what was then Canada West. His parents were dry goods merchant Thomas Burgess and Jane Rigg Burgess, both of whom were natives of Carlisle in Cumberland. He was educated in Upper Canada College in Toronto and obtained a scholarship and numerous prizes there. He then was matriculated with an M.D. in the University of Toronto. He contributed to Québécois physicians being drawn out of their isolation and encouraged to seek broader platforms. 1889: The Lake Erie shore as a Botanizing Ground 1889: Art in the Sick Room 1890: Notes on the History of Botany 1892: Notes on the Genus Rhus 1896: Thyroid Feeding and its Application to the Treatment of Insanity 1898: A Historical Sketch of our Canadian Institutions for the Insane 1899: Two Cases of Ephemeral Mania, Uncomplicated with Epilepsy, Intemperance or Parturition 1916: The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada, with Hurd et al.