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service to medical men more time must be devoted to its study. 

 Physiological chemistry is taught nowhere in our country, either 

 at the Universities or at any of our great medical schools." 



Not a few important changes have been made in the interval, 

 so that many of the complaints possible twenty years ago no 

 longer hold. Simple quantitative work in chemistry has now 

 taken the place of much of the worthless test-tubing which 

 formerly monopolised attention. But Physiology has profited 

 most. Huxley, in 1880, complained of the lack of special 

 classes — of the unreality, of the bookishness, of the knowledge 

 of the taught. Now the subject is taught everywhere practi- 

 cally. Here and there, also, courses of so-called Physiological 

 Chemistry have been instituted. Meanwhile the subjects them- 

 selves are grown to an extraordinary extent and a new science — 

 Bacteriology — has sprung into existence. Consequently, the 

 educational burden thrown upon the shoulders of the unhappy 

 student of medicine is now far heavier than it formerly was, so 

 that the effect of any improvements made in the teaching is 

 more than counterbalanced by the increased demands. 



If not at the parting of the ways, we are within measurable 

 distance thereof. It is obvious that the medical man stands 

 more in need than he ever did of exact training in chemistry — 

 that medicine is very largely a branch of applied chemistry. 

 " The chemist, the physiologist, the pathologist (the latter 

 nowadays almost synonymous with bacteriologist) will be the 

 physicians of the future and it is to their efforts that men may 

 look for new and greater victories over the terrible power 

 of disease " — are the concluding words in the article on Science 

 in Medicine published in the preceding number of this journal. 

 In the same number, in his article On the Physical Basis of Life, 

 Mr. W. B. Hardy, F.R.S., speaks of the greatest advance since 

 Huxley wrote on this subject forty years ago as being in the 

 domain of chemical physiology. Dr. Bayliss, F.R.S., in the 

 article on Enzymes deals with the highest problems in chemistry. 

 Again, Prof. Halliburton, F.R.S., in his Report on Physiological 

 Chemistry, in the volume of Reports on the Progress of 

 Chemistry during 1904, published by the Chemical Society, 

 comparing the condition of the subject with what it was some 

 years ago, writes : 



" If even a superficial survey of modern literature is taken, 



