Brunonian \Bru*no"ni*an\, a.
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.
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