author
Arthur Selwyn-Brown
A physician-writer with a strong interest in the history of medicine, this early 20th-century author is best known for tracing the doctor’s role across centuries of human history. His work blends medical storytelling with broad historical survey, making complex subjects feel approachable.
1 Audiobook
How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General Index
by Garrett Putman Serviss, Arthur Selwyn-Brown
About the author
Arthur Selwyn-Brown was a physician and author remembered chiefly for The Physician Throughout the Ages, a sweeping study of medicine and the social history of doctors. Library and catalog records consistently connect him with that work, which was published in two volumes and presents both a historical survey of medical practice and short accounts of notable physicians.
He is also credited, with Garrett Putman Serviss, on How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General Index, a work aimed at helping general readers explore scientific ideas and their development over time. That pairing suggests a writer interested not only in medicine itself, but in explaining the growth of scientific knowledge to a wider audience.
Reliable biographical details about his life are limited in the sources available here, so much of his background remains unclear. Even so, the surviving record shows a doctor-author drawn to big historical themes and to making science and medicine readable for non-specialists.