Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory

Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory (1839-1905) was an Indian physician and writer who practiced in Bombay and later lived in London. He compiled a two volume work on medicine and a compilation on the medicinal plants of western India and traditional treatments.

Carte de visite of Dr Khory

Khory came from a Parsi family in Bombay and studied medicine at the Grant Medical College, Bombay in 1864 before he obtained a diploma of the LRCP, London in 1870 and graduated MD from Brussels. He studied the medicinal plants of western India and published the Bombay Materia Medica and Therapeutics in 1887.[1] A second edition was produced with N.N. Katrak in 1903. He was an honorary physician at the Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital.[2]

He died at his home in Surat House, Loudoun Road, St Johns Wood and was buried at the Parsee cemetery at Brookwood.[2]

References
  1. Poonam Bala (January 2007). Medicine and Medical Policies in India: Social and Historical Perspectives. Lexington Books. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-0-7391-1322-6.
  2. "Obituary: Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory". British Medical Journal. 1 (2298): 107. 1905. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2298.107. PMC 2318856.
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