Sanger Brown

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.