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BRUNONIAN
BRUNONIAN
Bru
*
no
"
ni
*
an,
a.
Defn: 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.