BRUNTON, SIR THOMAS LAUDER Scottish physician, was born at Hiltonshill, Roxburghshire, on March 14, 1844. He was educated at Edinburgh university, and after three years of medical work in continental cities, was appointed in 187o as lecturer in materia medica and pharmacology at Middlesex hospital, London. In 1871 he went in the same capacity to St. Bartholomew's hospital where, three years later, he became assistant physician and in 1895 physician, a post which he resigned in 1904. He was knighted in 1900, and in 1908 was created a baronet. Brunton specialized in the problems of circula tion, his papers on his early work on the use of digitalis, nitrates, enzymes, etc., being included in Collected Papers on Circulation and Respiration (1906) . His chief works include Text-book of Pharmacology (1885) ; An Introduction to Modern Therapeutics (being the Croonian lectures for 1889) ; Lectures on the Action of Medicines (1897) ; Collected Papers on Physical and Military Training (1898-1915), and Disorders of Assimilation, Digestion, etc. (iqoi).