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Gustavus Richard Brown (October 17, 1747〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gustavus Brown )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gustavus Richard Brown / Peggy Graham ) 〕 – September 30, 1804〔Ridgely pp 63-64〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gustavus Brown Burial Site, Charles County, Maryland )〕) was a lifelong friend of George Washington, a physician, helped found the hospital department of the Continental Army, and a botanist. He is best known as one of the doctors summoned to attend to George Washington the night he died.〔Wilstach, pp 102-104〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Washington Really Did Sleep Here ) 〕〔Arnett, pp 44-45〕 Gustavus Brown studied medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland, graduating in 1768. In addition to medicine, he was elected to the legislature of Maryland, and served as a judge. He was a member of the Maryland state convention of 1788 and voted to ratify the U. S. Constitution.〔Scharf, pp 749〕 During the American Revolution, he helped establish the hospital department and was surgeon-general of the Continental Army. He was called on by General Washington to inspect the Maryland troops and enroll the names of the able-bodied men.〔 Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at its Fifty-third Annual Meeting Held November 9, 1905〕 Around 1780, he bought and combined four tracts of land from his neighbor, now known as "Betty's Delight".〔 Combining this land with his own, he built and in about 1783 moved into Rose Hill, his manor house〔Sometime after the 1783 tax assessment, according to the Maryland Historical Trust web page.〕 Rose Hill is adjacent to the Thomas Stone National Historic Site. Along with Dr. James Craik, "Dr. Gustavus R. Brown, another prominent resident of Port Tobacco, and Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick, attended () Washington during his final illness, December 14, 1799. Dr. James Craik was so impressed with Dr. Brown's medical skills that he suggested to Mrs. Washington (Martha), that if any case should occur that was seriously alarming, she should send for Dr. Brown."〔George Washington Masonic National Memorial, John P. Riddell, Curator, Replica Lodge Room〕 The Dr. Gustavus Brown Elementary in Waldorf, Maryland is named after him. His younger sister, Margaret, married Thomas Stone, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. In some records Dr. Brown is confused with his father of the same name, who came from Dalkeith, Scotland in 1708.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who was Dr. Gustavus Brown? )〕 The elder Gustavus Brown settled at Middleton (named after his family homestead near Dalkeith, Scotland) in Charles County, Maryland, as related by his descendant Moncure Daniel Conway.〔Conway, pp 1-5.〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gustavus Richard Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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