Tlie laboratory course for the students was something never for- 

 gotten by anyone who took it. The course was given in a large 

 laboratory with chemical benches all around the side, and two sets of 

 these in the center of the room. I always tried to get the Professor 

 to give the opening lecture in Pharmacology, and he would promise 

 that he would, but on that particular day something would always 

 come up, and as far as I can remember he never gave the lecture. He 

 did, however, give a lecture occasionally, which was the cause of great 

 excitement throughout the laboratory. Preparation on the lecture 

 was put off until the last minute, and then everyone was sent rushing 

 for one thing and another. The Professor would pull out from the 

 top drawer of his desk a set of very ancient notes in which he would 

 become deeply absorbed. He would send for twice as many articles 

 as he could even look at in the time left before the lecture, and when 

 the time finally did arrive, he was keyed up to such a state of excite- 

 ment that his voice often broke and he told me, "The only way that I 

 can lecture is to wait imtil shortly beforehand and then saturate 

 my mind with material," but the result on the students was worth 

 seeing. They instantly became absorbed in what he had to say or 

 it may have been in the man who was saying it. In any case, they 

 were unanimous in their praise of his lectures. Of course, at times he 

 would give a special lecture on epinephrine, vividiffusion, or the pitu- 

 itary, which he would prepare with very great care and exactness. 



But to return to the laboratory course. There were laboratory 

 exercises occupying one afternoon each week. Each year about two 

 weeks before the course began, the two Charlies would go through the 

 innumerable cupboards, drawers, research rooms, and so forth, and 

 pull out what apparatus they could find for the laboratory experi- 

 ments. Tambours, respiratory tanks, rubber tubing, cannulae, ether 

 cones, kymographs were all put in a great heap on a large table 

 in the corner of the laboratory with the idea of sorting these be- 

 fore the course began, but this was never known to have taken 

 place. In another corner of the large laboratory there was a small 

 research room which had been turned into a stock room in which 

 the unlabeled bottles were kept, and this room had one of those 

 doors which was cut across the middle so that the bottom could be 

 kept closed when opening the top. About the time that the students 

 began to arrive, the two Charlies would appear puffing up the three 

 long flights of stairs with gunny sacks full of dogs on their backs, 

 which were unceremoniously dumped over the half door into the 



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