Author: John Brown
Alternate names: Brown, John, 1735-1788.; Brown, John, Engels medicus, 1735-1788; John Brown, M.D.
Born: 13 Nov 1735
Died: 7 Oct 1788
Bio: physician, medical reformer, propounder of the “excitability” theory of medicine, which classified diseases according to whether they had an over- or an understimulating effect on the body, founder of the Brunonian system of medicine