The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of "brunonian".
The old Brunonian stimulating treatment has come into vogue again in the practice of Dr.
We may, for instance, return in a measure to the Brunonian stimulating system, but it must be in a modified way, for we cannot go back to the simple Brunonian pathology, since we have learned too much of diseased action to accept its convenient dualism.
And it was the Brunonian revolution, not the Copernican, that jolted Europe into the modern age (and that, not incidentally, brought Bruno to the attention of the Inquisition, and he was eventually burned at the stake).