The Crichton woman psychiatrist was a junior resident at "The Crichton Royal Lunatic Asylum". Among the people to have been treated there are artist Charles Altamont Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), William James Blacklock, Lydia Miller (widow of Hugh Miller), and feminist writer Dora Marsden. An unidentified female patient of Dr James Gilchrist featured as an illustration ("Figure 19") in Charles Darwin's "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" (1872). The original hospital building, now Crichton Hall, was designed by William Burn and opened in 1839. The hospital was expanded in the late 19th century, when Sydney Mitchell
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