Arthur Robertson Cushny
Arthur Robertson Cushny (born March 6, 1866 in Fochabers , Moray , Scotland , † February 25, 1926 in Edinburgh ) was a Scottish pharmacologist and physiologist .
He studied at Marischal College in Aberdeen , where he received his doctorate in 1889. After staying with Oswald Schmiedeberg in Strasbourg and Hugo Kronecker in Bern , he went to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , Michigan, USA as a professor of pharmacology in 1893 .
In 1905 he became a professor of pharmacology at University College London . In 1918 he succeeded Sir Thomas Richard Fraser in Edinburgh. In 1919 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
In 1917 he recognized that the renal tubules not only reabsorb water, but also most of the urinary substances.
Works
- The Secretion of Urine (1917)
- The Action and Uses in Medicine of Digitalis and Its Allies (1925)
- The Biological Relation of Optically Isometric Substances (1926)
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Robertson Cushny in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 19, 2019 .
- ^ Heinz Valtin: Function of the kidney , 1st edition, Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 1978, ISBN 3-7945-0556-5 , p. 6.
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| SURNAME | Cushny, Arthur Robertson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish pharmacologist and physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fochabers , Moray, Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1926 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |