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Many honors and appointments came to him. He was one time lecturer before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the physiology and pathology of the nervous system and Gulstonian lecturer before the Royal College of Physicians, London, and fellow of the faculty of physicians and surgeons, Glasgow. He received the honorary LL. D. from Cam- bridge University, England, the Lacaze prize from the French Academie des Sciences, and from the same body in 1SS5 the 'grand prix biennal' which elected him member in place of Vulpian. The Royal College of Physicians, London, presented him with the Baly medal in 18S6.

From a personal communication from his

daughter Mrs. Bolton McCausland.

Dr. D'Arcy Powell in the Diet, of Nat. Biog.

Archives de Physiologie Normale etPatholo-

gique, Dr. E. Gley, 5th series, 1S91, vol vi.

Comptes Rendus de la Society de Biol., 1894.

Nos Grands Medecins. H. Bianchon, 1891.

Lancet, 1S94, vol. i, p. 1391.

Monsieur Berthelot. The Life of Brown-

Sequard. Paper read before the Acad, des

Sciences, Dec. 19, 1S98.

There is a portrait in the town hall, St. Louis,

Mauritius by Serudat de Belzian.

Brown, William, M. D. (17 1792).

William Brown, an army doctor, was born in Scotland, probably Haddington- shire, where his grandfather had left an entailed estate. William was the grand- son of Dr. Gustavus Brown, Sr., of Rich Hills, near Port Tobacco, Maryland and the son of the Rev. Richard Brown.

He graduated M. D. in 1770 from the University of Edinburgh, where he was a student, the subject of his thesis being "De Viribus Atmosph»rae."

Settling in Alexandria upon his return home, he soon attained a high professional rank, and being a man of culture and polished manners, became intimate with many of the leading men of the day, and among them, Washington, Jefferson and Madison.

At the beginning of the Revolution he entered the service of his country as surgeon to Col. Woodford's regiment of Virginia troops, but on the twentieth of September, 1776, was elected assistant to

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Dr. Shippen, a chief physician of the Continental Army. Upon the recommen- dation of Dr. Hugh Mercer, he was elected by Congress, February 7, 1778, to be physician-general of the middle depart- ment in place of Dr. Rush, which position he resigned on July 21, 1780, returning to private practice.

In resigning he forfeited his right to pay in bounty lands, but so highly were his services esteemed, the General Assembly of Virginia made an exception in bis case and decreed that he should receive the pay due him, and also that he should be entitled to the bounty of land allowed surgeons of regiments raised under the authority of the state (Hening's "Statutes," vol. vi).

Dr. Brown married Miss Catherine Scott of the District of Columbia, and had a large family. His son, Gustavus Alexander, became a physician and practised in Alexandria for many years.

Dr. Brown died in January, 1792 and was buried at Preston, the Alexander estate, near Alexandria, Virginia.

His chief writing was a "Pharmacopoeia for the Use of Army Hospitals," a copy of which is now in the Toner collection in the Library of Congress. R. M. S.

Med. Men of the Revolution, Dr. J. M. Toner.

Browne, John Mills (1S31-1S94).

He was born in Hinsdale, New Hamp- shire, and after graduating at the Harvard Medical School in 1S52 John Hills Browne, surgeon-general of the United States Navy entered the navy as assistant surgeon. From 1853 to 1858 he served on the Pacific coast, and was then promoted to the rank of surgeon and assigned to the United States ship Kearsarge. He was an eye-witness of the famous battle between the Kearsarge and the Alabama off the coast of France July 17, 1864. At the close of the war Browne was put in charge of Mare Island Naval Hospital near San Francisco. In 1878 he was com- missioned medical director and transferred to Washington. Browne represented the medical department of the United States Navy at the International Congresses of