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John Robert Cobb (1903–1967), was an American orthopedic surgeon [1] who invented the eponymous Cobb angle, the preferred method of measuring the degree of scoliosis and post-traumatic kyphosis. Education
The son of a physician, [1] Dr. Brown was born in 1922. [2] [3] He did well in school, graduating from high school by the age of 16. When drafted by the US Army during World War II, he scored exceptionally highly on the Army General Classification Test, which resulted in the Army sending him to medical school. [4]
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.
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.
Sir John Charnley, CBE, FRS [1] (29 August 1911 – 5 August 1982) was an English orthopaedic surgeon. He pioneered the hip replacement operation, [ 4 ] which is now one of the most common operations both in the UK and elsewhere in the world, and created the "Wrightington centre for hip surgery".
John Browne (1642–1702) was an English anatomist, surgeon and author. He published the first description of cirrhosis of the liver in 1685 and the first description of necrotising pancreatitis in 1684. He was also known for publishing the work of others under his name.
"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.
John Brown argued that any symptoms of disease or behavior which strayed from that of a healthy individual suggested over-excitement of the body. For instance, even a person presenting as weak had been over-excited. [7] Brown labeled over-stimulation as the sthenic state and under-stimulation as the asthenic state. [8]