Former reader in pharmacology University of Edinburgh (b 1911; q Edinburgh 1935; FRSE), died from colon cancer on 18 June 2004.
During the second world war Henry served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, first on trooping duties in convoys to the Middle East, then in field ambulance work. He was later seconded to the US army on scientific intelligence; his last duty was entry into the Nazi extermination camp at Buchenwald to rescue scientists before the Russians arrived. On demobilisation, he took up a lectureship in pharmacology at Edinburgh. By developing sensitive biological assays, Henry was able to demonstrate the presence of histamine in the blood and urine of healthy individuals and later its hormone action in stimulating acid secretion in the stomach. For many years he was editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology. His wife, Katherine, predeceased him.
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