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specimen being conducted by assistants in the laboratory and the 

 demonstration table then wheeled into the lecture room. This had 

 great advantages, the chief one being that of the lecturer retaining 

 the attention of his audience. 



The Jahresbericht für Thier-Chemie, under the editorship of 

 Richard Maly, appeared in 1871, a modest volume of 341 pages. 

 Immediately after the Franco-Prussian war, the University of 

 Strassburg was founded and Felix Hoppe-Seyler was installed as 

 Professor of physiological chemistry. In 1877 he began the publi- 

 cation of the Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie. 



It took some years to erect the splendid permanent buildings 

 which make the University of Strassburg one of the finest in 

 Europe, and when proper housing was effected the work of the 

 Institute expanded. Pettenkoffer had built a respiration calorim- 

 eter in his laboratory in Munich; an improved one was constructed 

 by Hoppe-Seyler. The study of the respiratory functions, and of 

 the blood, of the absorption spectra and of the gases of the blood 

 were some of the subjects of his investigations. Glass apparatus 

 for mercury pumps could only be had in Europe at that date. 

 Later, the advent of the Edison bulb revolutionized the glass-blow- 

 ing industry on this side of the Atlantic. 



Previous to 1880 our medical schools offered little or no oppor- 

 tunity for the study of physiological chemistry. When in 1877 

 Hoppe-Seyler wrote his excellent book on the subject, the writer 

 secured his permission to translate it into English, and it would 

 have appeared simultaneously with the German edition. No promi- 

 nent publisher of medical books, either in New York or in Phila- 

 delphia could be found, however, who could see profitable sales, and 

 the project had to be abandoned. 



The influence of the French scientists must not be overlooked. 

 The brilliant work of Claude Bernard, of Regnault and Reiset, of 

 Robin, of Paul Bert together with many leaders in other depart- 

 ments of medical science, made Paris, up to 1870, the center of 

 medical Instruction abroad. But the German schools had been 

 steadily forging ahead, and the writer was advised by Professor 

 Wurtz, one of the most noted of French chemists, to repair to 

 Germany, since the facilities for obtaining Instruction in general 



