13 Facts About Haydn Brown

Haydn Brown was educated at University of Edinburgh Medical School and practiced as a neurological specialist.

Haydn Brown promoted a controversial type of suggestion therapy termed "neuroinduction" which he stated could treat many diseases and even make benign tumours disappear and secondary carcinomatous nodules regress.

Haydn Brown abandoned general practice to promote his own naturopathic techniques to treat disease.

In 1919, Haydn Brown authored Advanced Suggestion which reported successful results of his neuroinduction technique which consisted of relaxation, suggestion and laying on of hands to treat practically all diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, skin diseases and surgical cases.

In 1924, Haydn Brown was removed from the Medical Register for authoring a controversial article on maternal mortality and natural childbirth.

Haydn Brown criticized conventional medical practice and promoted a method called "autonomous relaxation" in which the patient, under the doctor's hands and suggestion is made to relax her nervous tension thereby giving the body the best way to perform its natural functions, including childbirth.

Haydn Brown stated that his method was "being discouraged as a result of the hide-bound conservatism of the leaders of the profession" but it could reduce a third of maternal mortality.

The General Medical Council considered the article an advertisement for his own method and stated that Haydn Brown was "guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect" and removed his name from the Medical Register.

Haydn Brown's name was restored to the Medical Register a year later.

In 1929, Haydn Brown's name was removed from the Medical Register again because of controversial advertisements for his "autonomous relaxation" technique to cure asthma in a series of articles for the Daily Record newspaper.

The Council concluded that Haydn Brown was guilty of obtaining patients from the publication of advertisements to promote his own techniques.

Haydn Brown was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Institute of Public Health.

Haydn Brown died from pneumonia at his home in Bedford Square, Bloomsbury.