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Joseph John Brown
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 2/February/1875
Date of Fellowship admission: 2/May/1876
Joseph John Brown was born in Wooler, Northumberland, the son of a local medical practitioner. He trained in medicine in Edinburgh, obtaining his MB in 1871, and thereafter served as Resident Physician at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He worked for one year at Saughton Hall Asylum as assistant to Sir John Batty Tuke, before moving to the Royal Edinburgh Asylum at Morningside, where he remained for a further three years. His final appointment was at the Fife and Kinross District Asylum, Cupar. His publications include 'Two cases of apoplexy of the pons Varolii' and 'The pathology of transient alternating hemiplegia', both published in the Journal of Mental Science in 1875. His proposed MD thesis concerned lesions of the spinal cord. He was killed in a carriage accident at Cupar on 29 September 1881.
Year of medical qualification
1871
Type of medical qualification
MB
Fellowship
The main qualification issued by the College, awarded regularly since the College’s foundation. This qualification was granted based on demonstrated breadth of experience and did not require an individual to pass a certain examination.