John Cargyll Shaw
American neurosurgeon
Died when: 54 years 120 days (651 months)Star Sign: Libra
John Cargyll Shaw (September 25, 1845 in St.Ann's Bay – January 23, 1900 in Brooklyn) was an American psychiatrist and neurologist.Son of John Shaw and Christine née Drew.
Received his first education from his mother, later attended a boarding school at Walton, Jamaica.At the age of seventeen he came to New York.
He was employed in the drug house on Pine Street.Graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1874.During his career, he held positions of neurologist to the and consulting neurologist to St.
Catherine's, St.John's, Brooklyn, Kings County, and Hudson River State Hospital.He was president of the (twice).He was among the first who advocated and applied in the insane hospitals of the United States.
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