David Rice (psychiatrist)
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8 April 1914 Hellesdon, Norfolk, England |
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| Died | 13 September 1997 (aged 83) Brighton, East Sussex, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium-pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1946 | Norfolk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960 to 1961 | Col. L. C. Stevens' XI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricinfo, 22 October 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander David Rice (8 April 1914 – 13 September 1997) was an English physician, naval officer, psychiatrist, first-class cricketer, and pioneer of lithium therapy.
After completing his medical studies, Rice joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 1939 as a Surgeon Lieutenant. He served in the Navy throughout the war, finishing with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander.
He was one of the pioneers of the use of lithium therapy for the mentally ill. After the war he worked as Deputy Medical Superintendent at Graylingwell Hospital, a large psychiatric hospital in Chichester in Sussex. In the early 1950s an Australian colleague showed him an article by John Cade in The Medical Journal of Australia on the beneficial effects of lithium on patients with mania. He decided to try it on some of his more severely affected patients, and found it worked in many cases. He wrote up the results in a 1956 edition of the Journal of Mental Science, after which his work was followed up in Britain by his colleague Ronald Maggs and others.
In 1956 he moved to Hellingly Hospital in Hailsham, another large psychiatric hospital in Sussex, as Medical Superintendent, where he remained for the rest of his career. He wrote a history of the hospital after it closed in 1994.
Rice played cricket, as a medium-pace bowler and lower-order batsman, well into his fifties. Aside from club cricket he played numerous games for the Royal Navy, two non-first-class matches for Sussex in 1945, and one match in 1946 for Norfolk in the Minor Counties Championship.
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