Ernest Basil Verney
Ernest Basil Verney
He was born in Cardiff, Wales and attended Tonbridge School and Cambridge University, where he was awarded MA and MB.
He was Sheilds Reader in Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and delivered their
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936,[1] his candidature citation stating that "By adapting the technique of perfusing the isolated heart-lung-kidney preparation to the use of two kidneys simultaneously, he has compared the isolated kidney with the kidney 'in situ' and thus studied the action of blood flow, nervous influences, and drugs on the secretion of urine; in particular he made definite advance in knowledge by proving the continual control of kidney activity by the secretions of the pituitary gland. Using a constant temperature and humidity chamber of his own devising he has recently discovered a late spontaneous diuresis in man and referred this also to pituitary control. All his work has been characterised by high experimental skill and philosophic thought".[3]
He gave the
He died in Cambridge in 1967.[1] He had married Ruth Conway in 1923.
References
- ^ PMID 11615479.
- ^ a b "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 4 March 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 4 March 2012.[permanent dead link]
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