Brū-nō'ni-an, a.

a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; — a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the last century by John Brown, of Scotland, and extensively propagated in Germany and Italy, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a forced state, sustained by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease is a result of the excessive or deficient action of these agents, alcohol being regarded as the appropriate remedy for one set of diseases, and opium for the opposite set.