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John Brown 23 Rutland Street, Edinburgh The grave of Dr John Brown, New Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh. John Brown FRSE FRCPE (22 September 1810 – 11 May 1882) was a Scottish physician and essayist known for his three-volume Horae Subsecivae (Leisure Hours, 1858), containing essays and papers on art, medical history and biography.
Dee: She is an educated African-American woman and the eldest daughter of Mrs Johnson.She seeks to embrace her cultural identity through changing her name from Dee to Wangero Leewanikhi a Kemanjo (an African name), marrying a Muslim man, and acquiring artifacts from Mama's house to put on display, an approach that puts her at odds with Mama and Maggie.
Brown's Elementa Medicinae was published in 1780 and followed several years later by Brown's own version in English. Brown did not live to see his work achieve any great acceptance, but in 1795, Dr. Thomas Beddoes, one of the leading physicians of his day, undertook a translation (claiming Brown's was deficient), accompanied by an extensive introduction to explain Brown's system.
In 1795, a critical edition of Brown's Elements of Medicine was published by the well-known physician Thomas Beddoes for the benefit of Brown's widow and children. [20] An edition of Brown's works, with a biography by his son William Cullen Brown, appeared in 1804.
"Rab and his Friends" (1859) is a short story by Scottish writer Dr John Brown. [1] It was very popular in the 19th century and often considered John Brown's best, or at least most well known work. [2] Even though short in length it was often published as a single volume with illustrations.
This Brown finally refused to pay, whereupon in 1838 his goods were twice seized and sold. His two sermons on The Law of Christ respecting civil obedience, especially in the payment of tribute, called forth by this grievance and the controversy it engendered, were later published with extensive additions and notes.
The Big Book, first published in 1939, was the size of a hymnal. With its passionate appeals to faith made in the rat-a-tat cadence of a door-to-door salesman, it helped spawn other 12-step-based institutions, including Hazelden, founded in 1949 in Minnesota. Hazelden, in turn, would become a model for facilities across the country.
In the year Sophia was born, he was involved with John Brown's abolition activities in Canada West. [4] [5] [6] Jones had three sisters: Anna Jones, Fredericka Jones, and Emma Jones, and two brothers: George Jones and James Jones. [3] Her sisters Anna H. Jones (1855–1932) and Fredericka F. Jones (1860–1905) both became teachers. [7] [8]