The Biographical Dictionary of America/Amory, Robert

AMORY, Robert, physician, was born in Boston, May 3, 1842. He was graduated from Harvard university in 1863, and from Harvard medical school in 1866. He went directly to Europe to study, and on his return to America began the practice of medicine in Brookline, Mass. In 1869 he was appointed lecturer on the physiological action of drugs, at Harvard, and professor of physiology at Bowdoin college in the following year, resigning his chair in 1874. For six years he was medical examiner for Norfolk county. He also served as secretary of the Brookline school committee, and as president and manager of the Brookline gas-light company. Among his publications are, with Dr. E. H. Clarke, "Physiological and Therapeutical Action of Bromides of Potassium and Ammonium" (1872); and with Prof. Edward S. Wood, "Wharton and Stille's Medical Jurisprudence," fourth and fifth edition (1882); "Treatise on Electrolysis in Medicine," (1886). He also became a member of the Massachusetts Medical society and of the American Academy of Arts and Science.