CHAPTER LXXVI 

 PHILIP KING BROWN, M.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQ2O TO 



1921 



PHILIP KING BROWN, the son of Henry Adams and Char- 

 lotte Amanda Blake Brown, was born in Napa, Cal., June 

 24, 1869. He received his preliminary education in San 

 Francisco public schools and in Belmont School, California, and 

 took his academic degrees at Harvard University in 1890 and 

 Harvaid Medical School in 1893. Dr. Brown was an attending 

 physician to the San Francisco Hospital from 1896 to 1918, being 

 in charge of the medical and tuberculosis wards. He is now a con- 

 sulting physician to the Mount Zion Hospital and the Southern 

 Pacific Railroad Hospital. Dr. Brown has accomplished perhaps 

 his greatest and most important work as founder and medical 

 director of Arequipa Sanatorium for early tuberculosis in wage- 

 earning women, where he instituted a successful sociological ex- 

 periment in the treatment of tuberculous working girls. He has 

 done other important pioneer work in ergo-therapy in tuberculo- 

 sis and in the blood studies in patients at the San Francisco Lepra- 

 sorium. Dr. Brown has twice been president of the California 

 Academy of Medicine, and is now president of the California 

 Tuberculosis Association. He is a member of the Association of 

 American Physicians and of the Climatological and Clinical Asso- 

 ciation. During the war Dr. Brown served as Deputy Commis- 

 sioner for the Red Cross in France, and as Assistant Medical 

 Director of the Department of Medical Research and Intelligence. 

 The bibliography of Dr. Philip King Brown follows: 



A study of the blood in 73 cases of bone tuberculosis in children, with reference 

 to prognosis and treatment. Occidental Med. Times, San Francisco, 

 xi, 462, 1897; also Tr. M. Soc. Cal., S. F., 1897, 169-176. 



Individual factors in hygiene (with R. C. Cabot). Boston Med. and Surg. 

 Jour., 1905, 689; also Detroit Med. Jour., 1905-06, v, 73. 



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