Madelaine Ray Brown

Madelaine Ray Brown (1898 – June 14, 1968 She earned a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1920, a master's degree from Brown University in 1923, and a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1927.

Career Brown was a neurologist and medical researcher affiliated with Cushing Veterans Hospital, New England Hospital for Women and Children, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston City Hospital, and Tufts Medical School. She was president of the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology. She received an Elizabeth Blackwell Award from the New York Infirmary in 1954, for her "brilliant scientific work". In 1957, she was honored as a Medical Woman of the Year by the American Medical Women's Association. She was one of the founding members of the Muscular Dystrophy Research Foundation.

Beyond her medical accomplishments, Brown collected antique pewter, especially pieces with Rhode Island origins, and was a charter member and treasurer of the Pewter Collectors' Club of America. She loaned several items to a major exhibition of American pewter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1939.

Publications Brown published her research in scientific journals including the Science, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Annals of Internal Medicine, the Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Medical Clinics of North America, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

"The effect of removal of the sympathetic chains and of the coeliac ganglia on gastric acidity" (1933) "The Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Pernicious Anemia and Subacute Combined Degeneration of the Spinal Cord" (1934) "Remissions in Multiple Sclerosis" (1939, with Tracy J. Putnam) "Alcoholic Polyneuritis: An Evaluation of the Treatment at the Boston City Hospital from 1920 through 1938" (1941) "Muscular Paralysis and Electrocardiographic Abnormalities: Resulting from Potassium Loss in Chronic Nephritis" (1944, with James H. Currens and John F. Marchand) "The Factor of Heredity in Labyrinthine Deafness and Paroxysmal Vertigo (Ménière's Syndrome)" (1949)