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

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family in Bombay and studied medicine at the

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, Bombay in 1864 before he obtained a diploma of the

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, 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,

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, St Johns Wood and was buried at the Parsee cemetery at Brookwood. File:R N Khory Hindi Punch 1896 2.jpg File:R_N_Khory_Punch_1896_1.jpg

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External links

* The Bombay materia medica and their therapeutics (1887) ** 1903 edition
Khory, Rustomjee Naserwanjee and Nanabhai Navrosji Katrak (1903) Materia Medica of India and their Therapeutics.

* Khory, R.N.(1885) The Principles and Practice of Medicine. London: H.K.Lewisbr>Volume IVolume II
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