BROWN, JOHN (1810-1882), Scottish physician and au thor, son of John Brown (1784-1858), was born at Biggar, Scot land, on Sept. 22, 181o. The two volumes of his essays, Horae Subsecivae (i.e., "leisure hours") (1858, 1861), John Leech and other Papers (1882), Rab and His Friends (1859), and Marjorie Fleming: a Sketch (1863), were enormously popular in their day. The first volume of Horae Subsecivae deals chiefly with the equip ment and duties of a physician, the second with subjects outside his profession. He died on May 11, 1882.
See E. T. McLaren, Dr. John Brown and his Sister Isabella (4th ed., 189o) ; and Letters of Dr. John Brown, edited by his son and D. W. Forrest, with biography by E. T. McLaren (19°7).