- One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the
18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the
supremacy of natural order.
- 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.