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nations are made of urine and animal fluids, and of the recogni- 

 tion and recovery of poisons from the animal body. This work is 

 supplemented by a lecture course for two years. Realizing the 

 importance of the subject of medical chemistry, the university 

 authorities are contemplating the erection of a new laboratory 

 equipped with every modern appliance and facility for original 

 work. Perhaps the most important contribution from the Labo- 

 ratory of Physiology since 1879 is the memoir on the Venom of 



Theodore G. Wormley, LL. D., 

 Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology, Medical Department. 



the Rattlesnake, by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Dr. Edward T. 

 Reichert, in which it was shown for the first time that the toxic 

 principles of venom are albuminous substances, and this laid the 

 foundation of the enormous amount of work in the development 

 of our knowledge of toxalbumins, etc. The Wistar and Harner 

 Museum, founded nearly a century ago, is the largest and richest 

 of the kind in the United States, containing not only a great va- 

 riety of specimens illustrating the normal and morbid anatomy of 



