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ROBERT AMORY. 



Robert Amory A. M., M. 1)., was born in Boston, May 3, 1842, 

 and (lied in Naliant, Aug. 27, 1910. He was graduated from Harvard 

 College in 1863 and from the Harvard Medical School in LStiO. After 

 the medical degree was conferred he continued his studies for a year 

 in Europe and while in Paris became especially interested in the 

 experimental study of the action of drugs. 



He began the practice of medicine in Brookline and soon opened a 

 small laboratory for experimental research in the stable adjoining 

 his residence in Longwood. He then interested a numl)er of medical 

 students in physiological investigations, especially with reference to 

 the action of medicines. Dr. Edward H. Clarke, professor of materia 

 medica in the Harvard Medical School encouraged his undertaking 

 and recommended his appointment to a lectureship on the physio- 

 logical action of drugs. Dr. Amory later opened a larger and more 

 convenient laboratory in La Grange St., Boston, for the use of his 

 students and for the benefit of those physicians who were interested 

 in experimental methods of biological study. A centre thus was 

 established for advanced students of medical problems and the labo- 

 ratory l)ecame the meeting place of the Boston Society of Medical 

 Sciences of which Dr. ^Vmory was one of the founders. Diu-ing this 

 early period of his career were puV)lished his researches on hydrocyanic 

 acid, caffein and thein, absinth, the bromide of potassium and iiin- 

 monium and on nitrous oxide. In connection with Dr. S. G. Webber 

 he published a paper on veratrum viride and veratria, and, with 

 Dr. E. H. Clarke, a monograph on the physiological and therapeutical 

 action of the bromide of potassimn and the bromide of animonium. 



His reputation as a scientific investigator along physiological lines 

 thus being established he was appointed in 1872 lecturer on physiology 

 at the Medical School of Maine and in the following year was made 

 professor of physiology in that institution. At this time he translated 

 the lectures in physiology given by Professor Kiiss of the university 



