George Alexander Brown, M. D., one of the best known physicians
of Montreal, his powers developing through the exercise of
effort, was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on
the 28th of June, 1866. The Browns are one of the old families
on that island and representatives of the name in different
generations have been prominently identified with professional
interests. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Brown was president
of the Prince of Wales College, while the maternal grandfather
was the leader of the government in Charlottetown for twenty-one
years.
Reared in the place of his nativity, Dr. Brown pursued his early
education in St. Peters Boys’ School and subsequently continued
his studies in Kings College University at Windsor, Nova Scotia.
The classical course which he there pursued constituted the
foundation upon which he built the superstructure of professional
learning. Entering McGill University, he won the degrees of M.
D. and C. M. from that institution where he graduated with the
class of 1889. During the succeeding year and a half he was
resident physician of the Montreal General Hospital, thus putting
his theoretical knowledge to the practical test and gaining
that broad and valuable experience which only hospital practice
can give. For more than twenty years Dr. Brown has successfully
followed his profession in Montreal and in addition to an
extensive private practice is acting as physician to the Montreal
Dispensary and is in charge of the tubercular clinic. He has
been a close and constant student of his profession, interested
in all that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery
which we call life and his own investigations and research have
resulted in bringing to light some valuable truths.
In February, 1906, he submitted to the Montreal
Medico-Chirurgical Society, a new treatment for consumption which
he has used in his practice with great success. This consists of
the injection into the human system of a solution principally
of iodine and in April, 1912, he read before the International
Tubercular Congress at Rome, Italy, a paper upon this treatment.
He is a member of the Montreal Medical Society and keeps in close
touch with the advanced work that is being done by fellow members
of the profession through the perusal of medical journals and the
latest contributions to medical literature as well as through his
connection with medical societies.
Dr. Brown was united in marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth (Conroy)
Muldoon of Watertown, who by her former marriage had two
children, William and Ella. Dr. and Mrs. Brown have become the
parents of two children, Elsie and Basil. They have a wide
acquaintance socially and are connected with the Unitarian
Society, while Dr. Brown is also a member of the University Club.
Year by year has marked his steady progress in his profession,
and today his position of prominence is accorded him by the
consensus of opinion on the part of colleagues and contemporaries.
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