Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory (1839- 29 December 1904) 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.
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. A second edition was produced with N.N. Katrak in 1903. He was an honorary physician at the Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital.
He died at his home in Surat House, Loudoun Road, St Johns Wood and was buried at the Parsee cemetery at Brookwood.
References
- "The Late Dr R.N. Khory". The Bombay Gazette. 10 January 1905. p. 5.
- Poonam Bala (January 2007). Medicine and Medical Policies in India: Social and Historical Perspectives. Lexington Books. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-0-7391-1322-6.
- ^ "Obituary: Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory". British Medical Journal. 1 (2298): 107. 1905. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2298.107. PMC 2318856.
External links
- The Bombay materia medica and their therapeutics (1887)
- Picture of a medical abnormality by Khory
- Khory, R.N.(1885) The Principles and Practice of Medicine. London: H.K.Lewis Volume I Volume II