Background
Gill, Richard Cochran was born on November 22, 1901 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Doctor William Tignor Gill and Flora May (Allen) Gill.
Gill, Richard Cochran was born on November 22, 1901 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Doctor William Tignor Gill and Flora May (Allen) Gill.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1924. Graduate student Columbia, New York University, 1926-1927.
Instructor English, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1925-1928. Field manager in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, South America, B. F. Goodrich Rubber Corporation, 1928-1930. President Gill, Miller Company, ranching, Ecuador, since 1930.
President Gill, Dundas and Company, Palo Alto, California, leader Gill-Merrill expedition, other South America (upper-Amazonian) expeditions in ethno-botany, tropical American pharmacognosy, et cetera
Ethnographic exploring chiefly in ethnobotany of drug curare, and clinical application to spastic paralysis, and its accepted clinical application in shock-therapy method of treating mental diseases, more recently its use as an adjuvant in anesthesia and an anti-convulsant in other fields. Private research in evolution and clinical application of new therapeutic curare variant of higher alkaloidal potency.
Evolution of economical production technique for chemical pure d-tubocurarine, its clinical uses in acute anterior poliomyelitis, obstetrical anaesthesia, allied gynecologic employments, recent easier co-administration with intravenous anaesthetics. Writer, lecturer, since 1930.
Acting adviser on tropical American defense commodities and drugs, defense facilities and terrain.
President Gill-Merrill Participants. Botanical collections New York Botanical Garden, Arnold Arboretum (Harvard), Kew Gardens (London), referable elsewhere. President, founder South America manufacturing base, Transandino Company, curare and other tropical drugs.
Founded technical library, over 5000 items on history, botany, pharmacognosy, pharmacology and clinical reprints and curare, curare synthetics, anti-curare agents
Communion and Water Baptism are symbolic acts of obedience to the teaching of Jesus in the New Testament.
Fellow American Geography Society, American Polar Society. Member Hakluyt Society (Great Britain), Explorers. Club, Sigma Phi Sigma.
Married Ruth Lenfest, April.