Millais Culpin | |
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| Born | (1874-01-06)6 January 1874 Ware, Hertfordshire |
| Died | 14 September 1952(1952-09-14) (aged 78) St. Albans |
| Occupations | English Physician and Psychotherapist |
Millais CulpinFRCS (January 6, 1874 –September 14, 1952) was an English physician and psychotherapist. He was born inWare, Hertfordshire and died inSt Albans, Hertfordshire. Culpin is commemorated by ablue plaque in Meads,Loughton. Most known for his work during The First World War, Culpin treated shell-shocked soldiers at the Ewell War Hospital.
Culpin appears as a character in theCasualty 1907 andCasualty 1909 television series, where he was played byWill Houston.
Millais Culpin was born inWare, Hertfordshire in 1874, the second of six children, to Millice Culpin (1847–1941), and Hanna Louisa Munsey (1848–1934). Culpin spent his early years inStoke Newington, where he attendedGrocers' Company's (Hackney Downs) School and acquired a lifelong interest in entomology.
He then attended theUniversity of London in 1891 while the rest of his family emigrated to Australia. Culpin's father settled the family inBrisbane and set up a medical practice.
In 1892 Culpin took a temporary assistant teaching position at a school inLaura, Queensland following an unprofitable time in theGympie Goldfields. While in the teaching position, Cuplin wrote multiple letters that were later published by his daughter and pursued an interest in insects. After four years of the teaching position, he moved toRoss Island, Townsville and continued to assistant teach.
In 1897 Culpin returned to England to study at theLondon Hospital inWhitechapel, becoming a Licentiate of theRoyal College of Physicians in 1902. He went back to Queensland for a year to assist his father in Brisbane before re-enrolling at the London Hospital. He graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery in 1905 and became a Fellow of theRoyal College of Surgeons in 1907.
Culpin traveled toShanghai where he worked as a surgeon treating casualties during theRevolution of 1911. Although the revolution only lasted around four months, Culpin remained in Shanghai. While in Shanghai, Culpin met Ethel Maude Bennett (1874–1966), a nurse at the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Hospital. They married in 1913 and had their only child Frances Millais Culpin inYoung, New South Wales in 1914.
After the birth of their daughter the family returned to England where Culpin had the hopes of opening a practice. However, he was commissioned into theRoyal Army Medical Corps as a surgeon when theFirst World War broke out. While working in France he encountered many cases ofShell Shock.
Culpin was one of the first doctors to suggest that Shell Shock was an emotional disturbance rather than physical trauma. In 1917 Culpin became a neurological specialist to the Army and worked at the forefront of research pertaining to causes and treatments of Shell Shock.
Culpin left the Army in 1919 where he was appointed as a lecturer in psychoneuroses at the London Hospital as well as maintained a private practice as a psychotherapist.
Culpin was approached with researching industrial health and telegraphists' cramp where he was able to show that it conformed to a group of disabilities known as psychoneuroses. This brought him into being appointed as a Professor of Medical Industrial Psychology at theSchool of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London in 1931.
Culpin retired in 1939 but continued to investigate problems of miner's nystagmus, became president of theBritish Psychological Association in 1944, was involved in the China Medical Aid Committee, and maintained his interests in mental traumas during theSecond World War.
Culpin passed at home in St. Albans of apulmonary embolism September 14, 1952.
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