biography
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| lived:
| (c.1735–88)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Bunkle parish, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, UK. He taught at Duns and Edinburgh, and after studying medicine became assistant to Professor William Cullen. He founded the Brunonian system of medicine in which diseases are divided into the sthenic, caused by an excess of excitement, and the asthenic; the former to be removed by debilitating medicines, and the latter by stimulants. |
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