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HLNRV HL ' RD RUSBY A Noted Educator iu Pharmacy Dr. HciiiA Huid Riisby was born in Franklin, New Jersey, April 26. 1855. Before matriculating at the college of Physicians and Surgeons in 1H82, he attentled the Massachusetts State Normal School antl the Centenary Collegiate Institute. As Assistant at the Smithsonian, Dr. Rushy made botanical explorations through .Arizona and New Mexico of inte rest to medical botany, and exiilored South America, 1885-1887, crossing the continent. He entered service with Parke Davis Company, whidi resulted in a continuation of botanical explorations and employ- ment with the firm as botanist and pharmacognosist. In 188}, the local anesthetic properties of cocaine were discovered and he was sent to Bolivia to investigate the plant from which it is obtained and procure supplies of the leaves. From 1888-1930, Dr. Rusby served as Professor of Botany, Physiology, and Materia .Medica, Department of Pharmacy, Columbia University, and Dean of the Faculty; Chairman of the New York Botanical Garden; as a member of the Revision Committee, 7th, 8th, and 9th revisions, U.S. P.; as a member of the Revision Committee of the Naii(jnal Fornuilary; as Presitk-ni (ji the American Pharmaceutical Association (1910), anil as an expert in drug products in the Bureau of C:heinistry, V. S. Department of . griiulturc (1907-1909). Dr. Henry Rusby is the author of Essentials oi Pharnuogiiosy, .Morjihology and Histology of Plants, National Standard Dispensatory, Wild Vege- table Foods of the United States, Manual of Botany, anil Projierties and Uses of Drugs. He wrote much on meilicinal Ijotany and con- tributed descriptions of many hundreds of new species and genera. He also introduied important drugs to the . merican .Materia Medica, among them, cocillana, mire, and caapi. Dr. Rusby was awarded the British Pharmaceutical Association ' s Hanbury Medal and the Fluckiger Medal. Henry Rusby died at the age of 85 on November 18, 1940. ke e emors
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