Complex sentence: In 1863, Clouston was appointed superintendent of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Asylum (Garlands Hospital) in Carlisle; and in 1873, Superintendent of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum and, in 1879, successor to Thomas Laycock as Lecturer in Mental Diseases at the University of Edinburgh.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1863, Clouston was appointed superintendent of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Asylum (Garlands Hospital) in Carlisle; and in 1873, Superintendent of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. In 1879, Clouston was appointed successor to Thomas Laycock as Lecturer on Mental Diseases in the University of Edinburgh.