(n.) The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.
(n.) The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian Brownism lingers on Labour's caution and timidity may be tangled up in its collective DNA, but it is also often traceable to dried-up electoral politics.
(2) Some of his "Brownisms" are previewed in this issue.
Brunonian
Definition:
(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.