Brunonian

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brunonian \Bru*no"ni*an\, 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.
     [1913 Webster]