Brown-Séquard, physiologist, born in Mauritius, of American parentage; studied in Paris; practised in New York, and became a professor in the Collège de France; made a special study of the nervous system and nervous diseases, and published works on the subject; (b. 1818).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Browning, Robert * Bruant