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PROF. RUDOLF BOEHM, a prominent pharmacologist, was born on May 19, 1844, at Nördlingen in Bavaria, the son of a medical man. He received his medical education at Munich, Würzburg and Leipzig, where he qualified in 1867. He first devoted himself to psychiatry, serving as assistant in the psychiatrie clinic at Würzburg. Afterwards he took up the study of pharmacology at Leipzig and commenced his important studies on cardiac poisons. In 1871 he was appointed assistant at the Physiological Institute at Würzburg under A. Fick, and in the following year succeeded Schmiedeberg in the chair of pharmacology at Dorpat, eventually holding the corresponding chairs at Marburg and Leipzig. He died on August 16, 1926, in Upper Bavaria. Besides numerous pharmacological articles on veratrin, aconitin, arsenic, digitalis, and curare, and physiological investigations, especially on carbohydrate metabolism, he was the author of a "Lehrbuch der allgemeinen und speziellen Arzneiverordnungslehre" in 1884, the third edition appearing in 1903.
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Rudolf Boehm (1844–1926). Nature 153, 617 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153617c0
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