organization. In his early life he must have been a very different man 

 from the one whom I saw. I have heard much from those who came 

 before me, but it was always the same— amusing anecdotes mixed with 

 the utmost admiration and in many cases an almost religious devo- 

 tion for this man whom we all loved. 



Dr. Abel's contributions to science were recognized the world over, 

 as can be seen from the honors which he received. These are sum- 

 marized as follows by Dr. Voegtlin: 



He was awarded the Willard Gibbs, Conne and Kober medals and the medal 

 of the Society of Apothecaries, London. Honorary degrees were bestowed upon 

 him by the Universities of Michigan, Pittsburgh, Harvard, Yale, Lwow (Poland), 

 Cambridge and Aberdeen. He was an honorary fellow or member of the follow- 

 ing societies: New York Academy of Medicine, Association of American Physi- 

 cians, Chemist's Club, Institute of Medicine of Chicago, Philadelphia College of 

 Pharmacy, American Institute of Chemists, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Kaiser- 

 liche Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher, Physiological Society of Great 

 Britain, British Pharmacological Society, Society for Biology of Buenos Aires, 

 Chinese Physiological Society, Soci^t^ de cliimie biologiques, Wiener Biologische 

 Gesellschaft. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1932 

 served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 On the last day of his life he received notification of his election to a foreign 

 membership of the Royal Society. 



John Jacob Abel will be remembered as the first pharmacologist 

 in this country and a member of that remarkable group of men who 

 made up the first complete faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of 

 Medicine, and for the part that he played in the founding of three 

 of our most important medical publications, the Journal of Experi- 

 mental Medicine, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and The 

 Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. He was the 

 pharmacological editor of the first of these, joint editor of the Journal 

 of Biological Chemistry with Dr. Christian Herter, and the first editor 

 of The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 

 He organized both the American Society of Biological Chemists and 

 the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Thera- 

 peutics. His pioneer work on the isolation of epinephrine, the active 

 principle of the medulla of the suprarenal gland, is known to every- 

 one. His ideas of plasmapheresis and his so-called artificial kidney are 

 equally well known, and his work on the phthaleins which culminated 

 in kidney and liver function tests should be known by clinicians the 

 world over, as they use these tests daily. The last work which received 

 general recognition was his isolation of crystalline insulin. Besides 



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