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Webster 1913 Edition


Brunonian

Bru-no′ni-an

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Adj.
Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; – a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.