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Maurice Vejux Tyrode

Born  1878
Died  1930

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American pharmacologist, born November 6, 1878, Besançon; died 1930.

Biography of Maurice Vejux Tyrode

Maurice Vejux Tyrode attended the Harvard University, obtaining his doctorate in 1900. At this institution he successively became assistant instructor and faculty instructor in pharmacology. He became known for his studies of isolated kidney, on Strophantus, mercury-albuminverbindungen.

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Bibliography

  • Pharmacology. Philadelphia, 1908; 2nd edition, 1912
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