Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) practised psychiatry in London. He developed ideas of heredity derived from Darwin, aiming to 'bring man, both in his physical and mental relations, as much as possible within the scope of scientific enquiry'. Body and Mind contains his 1870 Gulstonian lectures and two earlier articles.

Henry Maudsley (1835-1918), psychiatrist and Darwinian, published his Gulstonian lectures on the physiology of mental function in 1870.