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Sir Walter Langdon-Brown (13 August 1870 – 3 October 1946) was a British medical doctor and writer. Biography. He was born in Bedford, the son of the Rev. John Brown of Bunyan's Chapel, Bedford and his wife, Ada Haydon Ford (1837–1929). His mother was a niece of John Langdon Down, describer of Down syndrome.
Langdon-Brown was no innovator or originator, but he was, supremely, an interpreter and commentator, one to hold the balance between competing branches of medicine. Hence, perhaps, his teaching, while invaluable to the advanced student, went beyond the understanding of the average.
1 de feb. de 2008 · SummarySir Walter Langdon-Brown, born of robust Puritan stock, was a distinguished physician, teacher, medical historian and humanist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, before becoming Regius Pr...
It was in this lecture that Langdon-Brown famously named the pituitary gland as the leader of the endocrine orchestra, something he modified in his last (inaugural) lecture at the RSM by recognizing ‘that the hypothalamus holds the still more important rank of conductor’.
Sir Walter Langdon-Brown died in 1946 at the age of 76 honoured by all and loved by his friends, and holding the devoted affection of the nearest and dearest to him. He used to speak with pleasure and satisfac tion of the survival of the institutions, of his beloved university in particular, throughout future generations.
Sir Walter Langdon- Brown 191 THE CURATIVE ACTION OF SEA CLIMATE1 BT SIE WALTEE LANGDON-BEOWN, M.D., Hon. D.Sc. ,F.E.C.P. Emeritus Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge. Consulting Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. There is good reason to believe that all life began in the sea.
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