THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY 



detail as to empiricism vs. science is 

 merely to explain the meaning intended 

 to be conveyed by the term scientific 

 medicine in the title of the paper I am 

 presenting. All physicians will agree 

 that it is desirable to increase our knowl- 

 edge of pharmacology and pharmaco- 

 physics, for the more they know about 

 the effects of drugs and their cause, the 

 better off they will be in successfully 

 combating various diseases. There is 

 one obstacle, however, to success in this 

 direction in this country and which does 

 not exist in Germany, and that is the 

 indifference of hospitals and clinics to 

 take up and try, carefully and scientifi- 

 cally, any new preparation that may be 

 offered them for experiment. The neces- 

 sary thing to be done in this country to 

 make the development and study of 

 pharmacology successful is the adoption 

 of courses of lectures on these subjects, 

 together with the opening of laboratories 

 for their experimental study and re- 

 search. In Germany chairs of pharma- 

 cology are established at almost every 

 university, and at several of them the 

 lecture- room work is supplemented by 

 experiments and investigations and study 

 in the laboratory and clinic. Thus, the 

 laboratories of Prof. Schmiedeberg in 

 Strasburg, Bauman in Freiburg, and 



Drechsel in Leipzig, are headquarters 

 for this work in Germany, and their 

 number is steadily growing. It has not 

 been so many years ago that in order to 

 study the new science of pathology one 

 had to go to Berlin, to Virchow's labor- 

 atory, but Virchow has gradually devel- 

 oped other capable teachers and ex- 

 pounders of his theories and methods, 

 and now pathology is a part of the course 

 in medicine in practically every college 

 in this country. So it will be with phar- 

 macology and pharmaco- physics. The 

 pupils of Schmiedeberg, Drechsel and 

 Bauman will organize laboratories and 

 courses just as their instructors did, and 

 the result will be that every school of 

 medicine will embrace as part of its 

 curriculum lectures and laboratory work 

 on pharmacology, and, perhaps, also 

 pharmaco-physics. Some schools of 

 medicine have such courses already, as, 

 for instance, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, 

 Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor, etc., and 

 others will unquestionably adopt the 

 same in the near future. When this is 

 brought about the era for the scientific 

 administration of drugs, i. e., scientific 

 medicine, will set in, and the stepping 

 stones to reach that stage will be phar- 

 maceutic chemistry, pharmacology and 

 pharmaco-physics. 



LIST OF REACTIONS AND REAGENTS ACCORDING TO NAMES OF AUTHORS. 



(Continued from December Number.} 



Neelsen's carbolfuchsin for identifying 

 tubercle bacilli in the sputum is prepared 

 by adding a concentrated alcoholic fuch- 

 sin solution to a 5 p. c. aqueous solution 

 of carbolic acid (5 g. of crystallized car- 



bolic acid are dissolved in 100 cc. of 

 water and 1 g. fuchsin, dissolved in 10 

 g. alcohol, is added). Brlzck's andZiel's 

 carbolfuchsin solutions have similar com- 

 positions. 



