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George Elgie Brown
American physician, born 1885, Grand Rapids, Michigan; died 1935.
Associated eponyms:
Hines and Brown test
Test designed to detect latent states of hypertension.
Horton's disease I
A headache syndrome characterized by inflammation of the temporal and other cranial arteries.
Nygaard-Brown syndrome (George Elgie Brown)
A syndrome of arterial occlusion with reduced bleeding and coagulation time.
Trousseau's syndrome
Historical, no longer commonly used term for venous thrombosis of the upper and lower extremities associated with visceral cancer.
Biography:
George Elgie Brown graduated M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1909. He practised in Montana introducing the first fluoroscope there. During World War I he served in France with the Rockefeller Foundation and in 1921 joined the Mayo Clinic where he developed a special interest in peripheral vascular disease and the role of the sympathetic nervous system. He became an international authority and influenced many in this area.
Bibliography:
- Edgar Alphonso Hines (1906-) and George Elgie Brown:
A standard stimulus for measuring vasomotor reactions: its application in the study of hypertension.
Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1932, 7: 332-335.
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