Amariah Brigham, an American physician, born at New Marlborough, Berkshire co., Mass., Dec. 26, 1798, died at Utica, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1849. He commenced the practice of medicine in 1821, resided successively in Enfield and Greenfield, Mass., and in Hartford, Conn., and spent a year in European travel and study. In 1837 he delivered a course of lectures before the college of physicians and surgeons at New York. In 1840 he was appointed superintendent of the retreat for the insane at Hartford, and in 1842 of the New York state lunatic asylum at Utica. Here he had the personal care and supervision of 450 or 500 patients, besides which he delivered popular lectures on the treatment of the insane, and established a "Journal of Insanity." He published in 1832 a small work on "Asiatic Cholera," and soon afterward a treatise on " Mental Cultivation and Excitement;" in 1836, "The Influence of Religion upon the Health and Physical Welfare of Mankind; " in 1840, "The Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Brain; " and in 1849, a small volume of aphorisms and maxims for the use of those who had been under his care, under the title of the " Asylum Souvenir".