About Sanger Brown
Lived 1852 – 1928 (aged 75–76). Sanger Brown was a physician and neurologist.
Sanger Monroe Brown (February 16, 1852 – April 1, 1928) was an American physician.
Biography
Sanger Brown was born in Bloomfield, Canada West on February 16, 1852. He graduated in 1880 at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, was assistant physician at the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane in White Plains, New York in 1882–1885, and acting medical superintendent there in 1886.
He married Bella Christy on July 9, 1885, and they had one son.
In 1890, he was appointed professor of neurology in the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, and in 1901–1906 was associate professor of medicine and clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the same city.
Publications "An Investigation Into the Functions of the Occipital and Temporal Lobes of the Monkey's Brain" (1888), with E. A. Schäfer, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 179 B, pp. 303–327.
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Frequently asked questions
Who was Sanger Brown?
Canadian-American physician (1852–1928)
When was Sanger Brown born?
Sanger Brown was born in 1852 in Bloomfield.
When did Sanger Brown die?
Sanger Brown died in 1928 in Rush University Medical Center.
What was Sanger Brown's occupation?
Sanger Brown was a physician and neurologist.
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