William Brown graduated AM from Glasgow University in 1828 and MD in 1830. He became a Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1832 and Fellow in 1853. He was an Assistant Surgeon at the Glasgow Eye Infirmary in 1854 and was formerly Surgeon to the city parish of Glasgow. He was also an Assistant Lecturer in Surgery, Anatomy and Operative Surgery of the Eye at Glasgow University and on Natural History and Comparative Anatomy at Glasgow Mechanical Institute. He was a Member of Glasgow Medical Society and a member of the General Council of the University of Glasgow. He contributed to "Observations in the clinical ophthalmic wards in Vienna 1832 - 1833" in the London Medical Journal in 1834, "Remarks on Eversion of the Eyelids and on Hare's Eye" in Medical Gazette in 1836, and "Strictures on the operation proposed by Mr Wharton Jarvis for the cure of Lagophthalmus" in Medical Gazette in 1836. He died on 12 August 1873.
Diplomas from Glasgow University, 1828-1830, and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1832; notebooks including one entitled "On the Nature of Fever," another including recipes, cures and miscellaneous information, a "Private Formulary" and a notebook relating to cases treated in the Glasgow Eye infirmary, 1830; manuscript entitled "Remarks on the Choice of Operation for the Cure of Cataract by William Brown, M.D.," undated; printed pamphlets including a List of Subscribers to the Old College of Glasgow and Outlines of a course of lectures on the structure, functions and diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, 1828; Edward Chetwin's The Strait Gate and Narrow Way to Life, 1696; miscellaneous items including a ticket for Edinburgh Academic Library, 1766-1767 and a membership parchment for the Board of the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in Scotland, 1781.
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From the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Inside cover inscribed "William Brown AM". First and second pages are missing.
Contains recipes, cures and miscellaneous information.
Notebook.
"Remarks on the choice of operation for the cure of cataract, by William Brown, MD."
Printed pamphlet.
Lectures were first delivered in London in 1820.
Printed pamphlet, Outlines of a Course of Lecture on the Structure, Function and Diseases of the Eye, by William Mackenzie.
By Edward Cherwind. Earliest inscription, "Joannes Greirson".
Miscellaneous items including: ticket of Joannes Brown for Edinburgh Academic Library 1766-1767; ticket in Natural Philosophy signed "Jas. Russel for Mr. Jn. Nrown", Edinburgh 1770 and membership parchment of John Grier for the Board of the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in Scotland, 1781.