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BRUNTON, Sir Thomas Lauder (1844 – 1916)

1844 – 1916

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

1867 CE

#2890

On the use of nitrite of amyl in angina pectoris.

Lauder Brunton was responsible for the introduction of amyl nitrite for the alleviation of angina. Reprinted in F. A. Willius & T. E. Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 561-64.

1885 CE

#1881

A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica.

Brunton was physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and an eminent pharmacologist. He is notable for his introduction of amyl nitrite in the treatment of angina pectoris and for a vast amount of other work conce…

1892 CE

#1973

An introduction to modern therapeutics, being the Croonian Lectures on the relationship between chemical structure and physiological action.

One of the best known of Lauder Brunton’s works.