Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (born 1811)

Isaac Baker Brown

English gynaecologist and obstetric surgeon

Isaac Baker Brown was a prominent 19th-century English gynaecologist and obstetrical surgeon. He had a reputation as a specialist in the diseases of women and advocated certain surgical procedures, including clitoridectomies, as cures for epilepsy and hysteria. In 1867, his…