Sir Ram Nath Chopra (1882-1973).

Reverse pharmacological correlates of ayurvedic drug actions

Sir Ram Nath Chopra (1882-1973) was a pioneer in the field of experimental pharmacology of indigenous drugs of India. Most of the medicinal plants he studied were in use, in ayurveda, for thousands of years. At the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, he pioneered a paradigm, a pace and a pattern of research in studying the actions of medicinal plants, which influenced an entire generation of ...

Professor Sir Ram Nath Chopra and the Growth of Pharmacology in India

P U R S U I T a N D P R O M O T I O N O F S C I E N C E Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Industry

India followed the British tradition of teaching Materia Medica as a comparatively minor subject to medical students till about 1940. The School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata had created a Chair of Professor in Pharmacology for Col. Sir Ram Nath Chopra in 1922. The drug famine during the World War II brought the importance of pharmacologists in prominence and several departments of Materia Me...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: A Rare Presentation with Localized Iliac Lymphadenitis

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a benign, self-limiting disease characterized by histiocytic necrotising lymphadenitis. Though several viral agents or an autoimmune etiology has been proposed as causative, the exact cause remains unknown. It has a female predilection and most commonly seen among young Asian people. Patients usually present with a febrile illness and the presence of lymphadeno...

Medicinal chemistry research in India.

The beginning of modern drug research in India can be traced to early part of the twentieth century. Dr Upendra Nath Brahmachari worked on drugs for kala-azar at the Campbell Medical College, Calcutta. Colonel Ram Nath Chopra organized an active centre of research on the Indian medicinal plants at the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta. The lead given by Chopra led to start of investigations...