ly, and treated him in some respects as an assistant professor". In time, however, he quarreled with Cullen, as with the professors of the university in general, and from about 1778 his public lectures contained vigorous attacks on all preceding systems of medicine and Cullen's in particular.
             Following the quarrels at the university, Brown began to teach his own system of medicine in Edinburgh in opposition to that of Cullen. In 1780 he published his Elementa Medicinae, expounding his own, or as it was then called the Brunonian, theory of medicine. "Brunonianism certainly caused a stir. Its adherents created havoc with the intellectual life of Edinburgh, especially in the 1780s in the students' Royal medical Society and in the Royal Infirmary." Beddoes noted "as the Cullenian hypotheses were sinking into disrepute, many of the ablest students resorted to the standard of Brown, ... it was joined also by the most idle and dissolute." Brown was not, however, met without dislike by some, as the following account of a Brunonian evening is described by his student: "...when he found himself languid, he sometimes placed a bottle of whisky in one hand, and a phial of laudanum on the other; and that, before he began his lec
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