James William Brown Explained
James William Brown (1897–1958) was an English physician, pathologist, and cardiologist.[3]
After demobilisation he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1923. He graduated MB BS (Lond.) in 1924 and MD (Lond.) in 1928.[1] In 1924 he joined the general practice of Joshua Williamson (b. 1874), who was a general practitioner and also held an appointment as honorary surgeon to Grimsby Hospital.[2] [4] At the Grimsby Hospital, Brown became honorary pathologist and then honorary physician.[2] He qualified MRCP in 1930 and was elected FRCP in 1942. He was a general practitioner, in partnership with Williamson (who became his father-in-law), at Cleethorpes from 1924 to 1931 and at Grimsby from 1931 to 1938.[1] In 1938 he abandoned general practice[2] to become a consultant physician, and later cardiologist, to the Grimsby Hospital and the Scunthorpe General Hospital.
In 1930 he joined David Clark Muir in running a paediatric heart clinic at Hull. The clinic developed into a referral centre for congenital heart disease.[5] Brown wrote with Evan Bedford the section on congenital heart disease in volume 6 of the British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice (1937, London, Butterworth & Co., Ltd.). Brown's book Congenital Heart Disease (1939) was of some importance in the development of cardiac surgery. In 1943 he gave the Bradshaw Lecture. He was a member of the editorial board of the British Heart Journal.[2]
In Grimsby in 1925 Brown married Margaret J. Williamson. They had a son and a daughter.[2]
Selected publications
- with D. C. Muir: Arch Dis Child. December 1932. 7. 42. 291–302. 1975247. Patent ductus arteriosus. 21031901. 10.1136/adc.7.42.291. Muir. D. C.. Brown. J. W..
- with D. C. Muir: Arch Dis Child. February 1934. 9. 49. 27–38. 1975306. Patent interventricular septum (maladie de Roger). 10.1136/adc.9.49.27. 21031943. Muir. D. C.. Brown. J. W..
- with D. C. Muir: Congenital heart disease. Br Med J. 11 May 1935. 1. 3879. 966–971. 2460118. 10.1136/bmj.1.3879.966. 20779073. Muir. D. C.. Brown. J. W..
- with Frank Hampson: Temporal arteritis. Br Heart J. July 1944. 6. 3. 154–156. 480972. 10.1136/hrt.6.3.154. 18609971. Brown. J. W.. Hampson. F..
- with William Whitaker and Donald Heath: Patent ductus arteriosus with pulmonary hypertension. Br Heart J. April 1955. 17. 2. 121–137. 479536. 10.1136/hrt.17.2.121. 14363529. Whitaker. W.. Heath. D.. Brown. J. W..
- with Donald Heath and William Whitaker: Eisenmenger's complex. Br Heart J. July 1955. 17. 3. 273–284. 479556. 10.1136/hrt.17.3.273. 13239921. Brown. J. W.. Heath. D.. Whitaker. W..
- with Donald Heath and William Whitaker: Muscular defects in the ventricular septum. Br Heart J. January 1956. 18. 1. 1–7. 503934. 10.1136/hrt.18.1.1. 13284178. Heath. D.. Brown. J. W.. Whitaker. W..
- with Donald Heath, Thomas L. Morris, and William Whitaker: Tricuspid atresia. Br Heart J. October 1956. 18. 4. 499–518. 503979. 10.1136/hrt.18.4.499. 13374157. Brown. J. W.. Heath. D.. Morris. T. L.. Whitaker. W..
- with Donald Heath and William Whitaker: Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension. Br Heart J. January 1957. 19. 1. 83–92. 503366. 10.1136/hrt.19.1.83. 13396081. Heath. D.. Whitaker. W.. Brown. J. W..
Notes and References
- Br Med J. Obituary. J. W. Brown, M.D., F.R.C.P.. 27 September 1958. 2. 5099. 802. 10.1136/bmj.2.5099.802. 2026280. 13572911.
- Web site: James William Brown. Munk's Roll, Volume V, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians.
- Br Heart J. April 1959. 21. 2. 284–288. 1017581. James William Brown. Bedford, D. Evan. Davis Evan Bedford. Muir, David Clark. 10.1136/hrt.21.2.284. 13651518.
- Book: Registrar of Graduates, University of Manchester. 1908. 389–390.
- Web site: David Clark Muir. Munk's Roll, Volume VII, Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Physicians.
