author
Arthur Selwyn-Brown
A physician-writer with a strong interest in medical history, he is best known for the ambitious two-volume work The Physician Throughout the Ages. His surviving bibliography also shows a wider curiosity about science, from historical surveys to reference works for general readers.
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 active in the early 20th century. The clearest surviving record of his work centers on medicine and the history of science, especially The Physician Throughout the Ages, a large historical study first published in 1928 and later reissued in 1938.
Library and archive records also connect him to How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General Index, a volume associated with Garrett P. Serviss. Taken together, these sources suggest a writer interested in explaining scientific and medical knowledge to a broad audience, while also placing medicine in a long historical story.
Reliable biographical details about his personal life are limited in the sources I could confirm, so much of his background remains unclear. What does come through is the scale of his historical ambition: he wrote books meant to trace medicine across centuries and introduce readers to the development of scientific thought.