- BRUNONIAN SYSTEM
- a system which regards and treats diseases as due to defective or excessive excitation, as sthenic or asthenic.See BROWN, JOHN4.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BRUNONIAN SYSTEM
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