Cbe Journal of Pharmacology, 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCES MADE IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF 



MATERIA MEDICA. 



Vol. V. 



January, li 



No. i. 



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EDITORIAL. 



The Journal of Pharmacology has 

 more future than past, but as the father 

 of ' ' Sonny ' ' sagely remarked : " Ef you 

 go on bein' descendants long enough, 

 some day you'll be ancestors." 



The Journal op Pharmacology is 

 the legitimate descendant of the Alum?ii 

 Journal, and is the duly recognized off- 

 spring of the Alumni Association of the 

 College of Pharmacy of the city of New 

 York. During the one year of its exist- 

 ence it has published more than twenty 

 pieces of original work from the college 

 laboratories, receiving its contributions 

 from students, professors and graduates. 

 It has not only served as a medium for 

 such work, but it has been a connecting 

 link between the alumni and the college, 

 reporting all transactions of interest from 

 the one to the other. 



The commercial side of the profession 

 is so ably represented by the many phar- 



maceutical journals of the country that 

 it has been the aim of the Journal of 

 Pharmacology to take the standpoint 

 of pure science rather than the business 

 point of view, and it is a refreshing fact 

 to notice that whereas many of our 

 esteemed contemporaries either reprint 

 or translate their scientific articles from 

 the English or foreign reviews, these 

 latter have returned the compliment by 

 reprinting some of the original work 

 done in the laboratories of the College of 

 Pharmacy and published in the Journal. 

 The Journal of Pharmacology de- 

 plores its late birth, but recognizes the 

 fact that its lineage is of the best and 

 trusts that as it grows in years and wis- 

 dom it will become a fruitful source of 

 enthusiasm to the many more active and 

 broadly educated young men that are 

 connecting themselves with the college 

 and forming a group of investigators in 



