Arthur Selwyn-Brown

Arthur Selwyn-Brown is known as the author of The Physician Throughout the Ages, a large-scale history of medicine published in multiple volumes in the late 1920s and later editions. Library and catalog records describe it as a broad account of physicians, medical practice, and notable figures in the history of healing.

The book’s scope suggests an author deeply interested in how medicine developed over time, from early traditions to more modern practice. Surviving records connect his name strongly with this historical project, but easily confirmed biographical details about his personal life remain scarce.

Because so little dependable background information is readily available in the sources found here, it is safest to remember him chiefly through his writing: an ambitious, richly illustrated attempt to trace the long social and professional history of the doctor.