showed him the need of chemistry in medicine, and he took the time 

 and staked his savings to get a training in chemistry before settling 

 down to work. It was this which made it possible for him to see prob- 

 lems quite invisible to many of his colleagues and to visualize the com- 

 ing of the present-day knowledge of hormones and the importance of 

 chemistry in all life. He was equally well aware of the coming of 

 physics in medicine but was unable to convince enough others of 

 this to allow him to do for biophysics what he did for biological 

 chemistry and pharmacology. When the life of this man is fully 

 written, students of science as well as of medicine will do well to 

 study it. Dr. Abel gave the world much by his investigations, but 

 more than that he has given us ideals— lived up to— which anyone 

 would do well to follow. 



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