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Percy Brown was born on November 24, 1875 in Cambridge, Massachussets, to Isaac Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Kennedy) Brown. He was a descendant of patrician New England families including Pierces and Emersons. He was christened Percy Emerson Brown, but in early manhood he legally dropped his middle name--an act not intended, however, to be disrespectful to his distinguished ancestor Ralph Waldo Emerson.
After graduating from the Browne and Nichols School, Brown in 1893 took three years of premedical study at the Lawrence Scientific School. He entered Harvard Medical School and received the M. D. degree in 1900.
During two years of his interned at Boston Children's Hospital, Percy Brown first became interested in roentgen rays. In 1904 he started his own private practice. From the very beginning of his professional career, Brown employed X rays for medical purposes. At that time Roentgen's discovery had been known for only six or seven years and the clinical application of X rays had barely begun.
Brown exerted a strong and continuing influence, both in personal contacts and in professional affiliations, including the American Roentgen Ray Society, which he joined in 1902, to establish professional standards and training for physicians practicing roentgenology, now more familiarly known as radiology.
As a measure of the continually growing importance of X rays in medical diagnosis and therapeutics, and of his role in their application and practice, he held clinical teaching appointments at Harvard Medical School from 1911 to 1922, first as assistant in the use of the roentgen ray and later as instructor in roentgenology.
In World War I, Brown, serving as a major in the Army Medical Corps, was appointed chief of X-ray service to Base Hospital No. 5, which operated in France as the Harvard Unit from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Brown had worked with X rays during his student days and internship, and soon after establishing his own practice he had noticed lesions on his face and hands which he came to recognize were the result of overexposure to radiation. Although they began to cause him some concern, he nevertheless insisted on serving with the base hospital where much fluoroscopy had to be done on the wounded under conditions that afforded inadequate protection to the examiner.
On his return from the war, he abandoned his practice and became associated with various large clinics as a roentgenologist. His longest service (1924 - 1929) was at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, but he also served at the Jackson Clinic, Madison, Wisconsin, Grunow Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, and as roentgenologist-in-chief at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh (1923).
Although he underwent over fifty operations for the control of cancer, he neither complained nor indulged in self-pity. Former medical students remember his willingness to have his lesions demonstrated to classes.
In time the lesions on his hands became progressively worse, eventually forcing his retirement from active practice in 1934.
In his seventy-fifth year Brown died of a cardiac ailment in the village of Egypt near Scituate, Massachussets, and was buried in the Congregational cemetery at West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard.
Percy Brown major achievement was that he was the first physician who elevated the use of X ray for diagnosis and therapy to the status of a separate medical specialty. Always closely allied with the American Roentgen Ray Society, he served as its Caldwell Lecturer in 1923 (he had been president of the society in 1911) and as its historian until shortly before his death. In 1923 he received the Gold Medal of the Radiological Society of North America. Although he published numerous articles in medical journals, he is best remembered for his book American Martyrs to American Science Through the Roentgen Rays (1935), an account of twenty-eight physicians, physicists, and engineers, the majority known by the author, whose deaths resulted from overexposure to radiation during the pioneering days of X rays. He, as much as any other American physician of his period, was responsible for taking the application of Roentgen's invention out of the hands of hospital photographers and electricians, to whom it had been relegated initially, and placing it in charge of physicians versed in the physics of radiation. In addition he also designed several pieces of apparatus used in the operation of the roentgen ray. Due in large part to his efforts, diagnosis and therapeutics through X irradiation came to be carried on in a scientific manner, and principles were laid down upon which rests much of modern medical radiology.
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Percy Brown was a member of the American Roentgen Ray Society.
Intimates describe him as a lovable, gifted, and modest physician.
Percy Brown married Bernice Mayhew; they had no children.
