Dr. John Brown, author of the Brunoian System of Medicine, with the ensign of the Roman Eagle Freemasonry Lodge. He lectured at Edinburgh University, and took 40 or 50 drops of laudanum in a glass of whiskey four or five times during the course of a lecture. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.

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