Brown, John, M.D., founder of the Brunonian system of medicine, born at Bunkle, Berwickshire; reduced diseases into two classes, those resulting from redundancy of excitation, and those due to deficiency of excitation; author of “Elements of Medicine” and “Observations on the Old and New Systems of Physic” (1735-1788). See Broussais.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brown, John, M.D. * Brown, Jones, and Robinson