CHAPTER LXXIV 

 LAWRASON BROWN, M.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQlS TO IQIQ 



EWRASON BROWN, the son of William Judson and Mary 

 Louise Lawrason Brown, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, 

 September 29, 1871. He was educated in the private and 

 public schools of Baltimore and received his degree of A.B. 

 from Johns Hopkins University in 1895, and of M.D. from Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School in 1900. Dr. Brown went to the 

 Adirondacks for his health first in 1898. In 1900 and 1901 he 

 was assistant resident physician at the Adirondack Cottage 

 Sanitarium, now the Trudeau Sanatorium; resident physician 

 1901-1912; visiting physician 1912-1914, and since 1914, chair- 

 man of the medical board, consulting physician and trustee. 

 He served on the village board of Saranac Lake Village ; was the 

 first president of the Stevenson Society of America. He started 

 the Journal of the Outdoor Life in 1904 and conducted it until 

 1909, when it was turned over to the committee at present in 

 charge of it. He was the first president of the Adirondack Good 

 Roads Association which helped to bring about the system of 

 good roads now in existence throughout the mountains. He is a 

 Trustee of the Ray Brook State Sanatorium for Incipient Tu- 

 berculosis. During the war he was a member of the Medical 

 Advisory Board of Saranac Lake; member of the Tuberculosis 

 Committee of the Medical Section of the National Council of 

 Defence; served as contract surgeon at Camp Devens for a short 

 time, and was a "four minute man." 



Dr. Brown's contribution to tuberculosis literature is an ex- 

 tensive one. He is the author of " Rules for Recovery from Tu- 

 berculosis," a handbook for patients which has gone through 

 several editions, of "Diagnostic Theses," later enlarged to 

 "Theses, Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Therapeutic," which has 



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