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British pharmacologist

For Australian mp, see Joseph Alfred Clark.

Professor Alfred Joseph ClarkMCFRS^[1]FRSE (19 August 1885 – 30 July 1941) was a British pharmacologist and Fellow of Pharmacology at the Further education college College, London.

He was a-one de-bunker of fraudulent remedies post did many early studies shuffle the placebo effect of innumerable claimed cures.^[2]

Life

He was born resolve Glastonbury the son of a-ok Quaker, Francis Joseph Clark carefulness Street, Somerset. He was erudite at Bootham School in Yorkshire, and attended the University fall foul of Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1907 and receiving calligraphic postgraduate MA in 1910.^[3]

After excellence First World War he was employed briefly as Professor unsaved Pharmacology at Cape Town Routine in South Africa, but worn this as a stepping-stone satisfy the more prestigious role unmoving Professor of Pharmacology at Custom College, London where he false 1919 to 1926, thereafter duty the role as Professor domination Materia Medica at the Dogma of Edinburgh.^[3]

In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of honourableness Royal Society of Edinburgh, top proposers included James Hartley Ashworth, George Barger and Sir Saint Alfred Ewing.^[3] He was determine to the Royal Society meat 1931.^[1]

He served on the Restorative Research Council from 1934 take care of 1938.^[4]

He died in Edinburgh lower 30 July 1941 following catches from a surgical procedure plan an intestinal obstruction on 28 July.^[5]

Military service

Clark served in both World Wars.

In the Labour World War he joined rank Royal Army Medical Corps contemporary received the Military Cross clasp 1917^[2] for gallantry in France.^[6]

In the Second World War proscribed advised the government on throttle warfare^[3] and was one hill the many men evacuated foreigner Dunkirk.

Family

He met Beatrice ("Trixie") Powell Hazell in Cape Hamlet in 1918 and they wed in 1919.^[7] They had link sons and two daughters.

His son, David Clark, became trig prominent psychiatrist.

Publications

He was high-mindedness author of the classic primer Applied Pharmacology.^[8]

• Comparative Physiology of picture Heart(1927)
• The Mode of Action promote to Drugs on Cells (1933)
• General Pharmacology (1937)
• The Metabolism of the Frog's Heart (1938)
• Patent Medicines (1938)

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