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WE regret to announce the death on June 11 after a short illness of Dr. Edgar Zunz, professor of pharmacodynamics and therapeutics in the University of Brussels and an eminent personality in the Belgian medical world. He was born at Charleroi on November 9, 1874, and received his medical education at Brussels where he qualified with distinction in July 1897. Having won a travelling scholarship, he spent some time at Heidelberg in studying organic chemistry in Gattermann's laboratory, and later at Strassburg in Hofmeister's laboratory of biochemistry and at Bern under Kronecker, the physiologist. On his return to Brussels in 1900 he was appointed assistant to Prof. Victor Jacques in the laboratory of pharmacodynamics and therapeutics. In the following year he presented a thesis to the University of Brussels on the digestion of albuminoid substances, which gained him the degree of doctor in physiological science. In 1906 he was appointed an agrégéin the Brussels medical faculty, and gave a course of practical demonstrations in medical chemistry. In 1909 ho became lecturer to postgraduates in toxicology and in 1913 instructed students in the elements of pharmacography. During the War he did valuable work as director of the medical department including,the care of the gassed at the Ocean Ambulance at La Panne. In 1919 he was appointed professor of pharmacodynamics and therapeutics in the Brussels faculty of medicine and held this post until his death.
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R., J. Prof. Edgar Zunz. Nature 144, 104 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144104a0
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