Scientific Cock-a-doodle 



simple phenomena, and by revealing to us 

 their slight acquaintance with one small cor- 

 ner of acquirable information in accents of 

 assumed profundity. 



In 1916 the May number of the Journal 

 of Experimental Medicine, an American pub- 

 lication edited by Dr Flexner, a lofty pillar of 

 Science, contains some splendid additions to 

 the language in a paper by Messrs W. A. 

 Jacobs, M. Heidelberger, and H. L. Amoss. 

 The combination of races which their names 

 represent prepares the reader for the lingual 

 dexterity displayed in the paper by these 

 American gentlemen entitled : 



" Salts of Hexamethylenetetramine." 



One of their tables alludes in a sporting 

 humour to such little matters as : 



Benzylhexamethylenetetraminium chloride, 

 p-methylbenzylhexamethylenetetraminium chloride, 

 o-bromobenzylhexarnethylenetetraminium chloride, 

 o-cyanobenzylhexamethylenetetraminium chloride. 



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