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About the authors
GREG DE MOORE is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry based at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital. Born in Melbourne of parents who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka, Greg has lived in Sydney for over 30 years. Outside of the hospital he has combined his medical interests with Australian history to write and co-write two previous books—Tom Wills and A National Game. The biography of Tom Wills was based on ten years of research unearthing original medical records, letters, textbooks and notes previously believed to have been lost or destroyed. This book won numerous awards and was shortlisted for the National Biography Award. Greg has also written on the need to preserve psychiatric records as a precious storehouse of clinical and social history.
ANN WESTMORE is an Honorary Fellow in the Health Humanities and Social Science Unit, School of Population and Global Health, at the University of Melbourne. She came to the history of medicine and science through a degree in science and a previous career as a medical writer for a mass circulation newspaper. After completing a Master of Science in the history and philosophy of science, Ann completed a PhD titled ‘Mind, Mania and Science: Psychiatry and the Culture of Experiment in Mid-Twentieth Century Victoria’. Her thesis gave rise to work with Museum Victoria and the University of Melbourne investigating nineteenth and twentieth century mental health care in Australia. In 2010 she commenced work with Greg de Moore on a biography of John Cade while also working on a history of psychiatry in Victoria in the twentieth century.
Index
Page numbers in italic refer to photographs
alcoholism 278
vitamin therapy for 272
Alcoholism Foundation of Victoria 272
Allied strategic plan 45–6, 53, 57
American Psychiatric Association 273
antibiotics 17, 65–6, 227
Anzac Day 201, 285
Ararat Asylum/Mental Hospital 189, 202–3
Archibald Prize 237
Army, Australian 34, 40–1, 130, 132, 134
2/9th Field Ambulance 40, 43, 44, 50–4; see also Field Ambulance
7th Battalion 131
8th Division 34, 44
camps 34, 40
disability pension 129, 134, 140–2, 171
general hospital 139, 143, 145
Ashburner, Val 185–6
Aspinall, George 53, 58, 66
Australian Army Medical Corps 44
Australian Imperial Force (AIF) 34, 56, 79
Malayan Nursing Scholarship 79
Australian Light Horse 129, 130 Australian Rules football 43, 54 autopsy 76–7
Baastrup, Poul Christian 252
critics 254–7
Ball, Harold 43–4, 53
Ballarat Asylum/Mental Hospital
conditions 182–3, 220–1
history 182
lithium deaths 182–3, 221
Balranald Hospital 6
Beattie Smith lectures 189–94
Beechworth Asylum/Mental Hospital 16, 18–21, 81
conditions 20, 22–3, 30–1
patients 21–4
staff 22–4, 30
beri-beri 59, 68
beryllium research 123
bipolar disorder/illness ix–xi, 25–8, 253, 257, 263, 295–6
lithium therapy for 256–7, 266, 293
prevention 252–7
Blackwell, Barry 255–6
Boer War 8
Brand, Pearl 137–42, 146, 292, 294–5
Brand, William Henry (‘Bill’) 128–30, 146–62, 167–71, 175–7, 182, 267, 292, 294–5
army enlistment and discharge 130–4, 139
constitution 131, 143
diagnosis 136, 138, 141, 144
employment 131, 134, 136–7, 139–40, 142–3, 160
family 129–30, 134, 140–4, 157, 161–2, 169
illness 131–9, 141–5, 147–50, 152, 157–8, 160
lithium treatment 153–8, 160–1, 167–70, 266–7
Brand, William Henry (‘Bill’) continued marriage 137, 139–42, 146, 292 pension 134, 136–7, 138, 140–2
Brown, Irene Harpur (‘Aunt Rene’) 16, 278
Bundoora Homestead 90–1
Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital 32, 81, 89–91, 115, 188, 200–1, 205–6
Bill Brand and 146–58, 160–1, 167
early history 90–1
everyday life 95, 103
John Cade and 32, 91–103, 115, 154–7, 202, 205–6, 209–10
recreations 100–1, 151
Ward A 89–91, 156
Burnet, Frank Macfarlane 33
Cade, David (brother of J.F.J.C.) xii, 9, 12, 41
Cade, David (second son of J.F.J.C.) 78, 81–4, 92–3, 112–13, 172, 188, 222–4, 269
childhood 39, 45, 47–9
education 211, 234, 244
relationship with patients 97–103, 151–2, 160–1, 205–6
Cade, David Duncan (father of J.F.J.C.) 4, 6–11, 13, 48, 70, 111, 234
relationship with son 10, 111–12, 125, 231
Cade, Ellen (née Edwards) xii, 4–7, 11–13, 48
Cade, Estana Evelyn Jean (‘Jean’) (née Charles) 17–18, 29, 34, 39, 47–9, 65, 67, 84, 91, 165–7, 191–2, 245, 259, 267, 279–81
attitude to research 106, 109, 125–6, 193, 252, 269–70
character 69–71, 78–85, 223, 288–91
death of daughter 113–14
early life 70
marriage 29, 32
nursing career 32
trip to England 225–33
Cade family
history 3, 7, 13, 14
holidays 172, 197–9
residences 39, 47–9, 69–71, 91–2, 204–5, 210–11, 257–60, 278
Cade, Frank xii, 9, 41
Cade, Frederick 3, 14, 15
Cade, John (great-great-grandfather of J.F.J.C.) 3
Cade, John (‘Jack’) (J.F.J.C.’s eldest son) 112–16, 172, 176, 274
childhood 32, 39, 45, 47–9
education 211, 244
illness 222–4, 234
insulin coma therapy involvement 212–13
lithium therapy 218, 256
relationship with father 78, 81–4, 290–1
relationship with patients 97–103, 151–2, 160–1, 205–6
Cade, John Frederick Joseph ii, xii, 32, 36, 86, 91, 172, 262, 296
administrative role 209, 235, 257–8
as collector and classifier 12, 16, 253
attitude to Freudian notions 155, 191–2, 194–6
Changi experiences 56–62, 64–5, 67–9, 72–84
character 16, 58, 92–4, 116, 124, 167, 175–6, 188–90, 191–6, 201–2, 209, 222–3, 229–32, 242–7, 260, 274–5, 279, 284, 295
childhood 3–13
coroner’s inquest appearance 175–7, 218
curiosity and observational powers 7, 12, 111–12, 130, 193, 229, 239–47
death of daughter 113–14
education 12–15, 16–18, 32
ethical considerations 259–60, 278, 283–4
friendships 34, 41, 43, 54, 184–5, 201, 253, 285
illnesses 17–18, 59, 73, 83–4, 227, 232, 288–91
lessons from war 57, 75–7, 80–2, 155, 198
lithium therapy 193, 217–19, 231, 269–82
love of nature 12, 80, 94, 126, 197–9, 228–9, 278–80, 291
military service 33–4, 39–46, 50–62, 72, 78–82
nickname and pseudonym 37, 60, 195, 285–7
nutritional interest 44, 58, 67–9, 72–3, 250–1, 272
private psychiatric practice 32, 278
promotions and awards 188, 200, 206, 265–9, 271, 273–4
psychiatric colleagues and 166, 181, 191–4, 206–8, 217–18, 225–6, 234–6, 252–7, 259–60, 269–71, 279–81
public response to 192, 195, 266, 275–6, 282–4, 293
recreations 12, 72, 94, 102–3, 198–9, 239–40, 245, 247–9
relationship with father 10, 15, 111–12, 228, 231
religious beliefs 13–14, 79, 93, 194–6, 223–7, 235, 271, 285–7
research activities 32–3, 73–7, 104–13, 116–23, 153–71, 175, 193, 209, 213, 217; see also guinea pigs, experiments on; ‘the shed’
reserved manner/formality 80, 92, 113–14, 168, 199, 217, 235
retirement 277–9
routine 154, 164–5, 208–10, 235, 260
self-administration of candidate drugs 124–6, 175, 267, 269
self-doubt 78, 83
sense of humour 227, 235, 243–5, 248, 281, 289
smoking 65, 80, 93–4, 208, 210, 271–2, 290
study tour to England 225–33
teaching activities 42, 189–94, 242–3, 250–1, 268–9, 279, 281–2
Cade, Joseph 3, 13
Cade, Mary 113–14, 222
Cade, Peter 172, 197, 211, 234, 244–5, 248–9, 291