Richard Browne

Richard Browne (fl. 1674–1694), also called Richard Brown, was an English physician.

Biography Browne was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, but graduated at Leyden, where he was admitted 20 September 1675, being then fifty years old. He became a licentiate of the College of Physicians on 30 September 1678. His principal writings, some of which bear on the title-page by Richard Browne, Apothecary of Oakham,' are: ‘Medicina Musica; or a Mechanical Essay on the Effects of Singing, Music, and Dancing on Human Bodies: with an Essay on the Nature and Cure of the Spleen and Vapours,’ London, 1671, new edition 1729. ‘Περὶ Ἀρχῶν, Liber in quo Principia Veterurn evertuntur, et nova stabiliuntur,’ London, 1678. ‘Prosodia Pharmacopœorum, or the Apothecary's Prosody,' London, 1685. ‘English Grammar,‘ London, 1692. ‘General History of Earthquakes,' London, 1694, A small book entitled ‘Coral and Steel, a most Compendious Method of Preserving and Restoring Health, by R. B., M.D.,' no date, is doubtfully assigned to the same R. Brown.