376  Pharmacy  and  Public  Health  Service.  / An?-  Jov"'*£*rm- 
Kj/  J  \    August,  1910. 
divided  into  divisions  more  or  less  distinct  and  independent  of  each 
other.    These  divisions  include 
1.  Division  of  Pathology  and  Bacteriology, 
2.  Division  of  Zoology, 
3.  Division  of  Pharmacology,  and, 
4.  Division  of  Chemistry. 
The  work  that  has  been  done  in  connection  with  the  several 
divisions  of  the  Hygienic  Laboratory  has  attracted  widespread 
attention  and  is  generally  recognized  as  being  of  great  scientific 
value. 
As  a  practical  illustration  of  the  appreciation  of  this  work  by 
individual  citizens,  it  is  but  necessary  to  call  attention  to  the  recent 
gift  of  $1,000,000  by  Mr.  John  D.  Rockefeller  for  the  purpose  of 
eradicating  hookworm  disease  from  the  Southern  State's.  This  gift 
is  not  alone  a  recognition  of  the  scientific  character  of  the  work  done 
in  the  Hygienic  Laboratory,  but  is  also  a  tribute  to  the  ability  and 
worth  of  the  Chief  of  the  Division  of  Zoology,  who  was  the  first 
to  call  attention  to  the  now  widely  recognized  prevalence  of  hook- 
worm disease  in  the  Southern  States. 
In  addition  to  hookworm  disease  the  Public  Health  and  Marine- 
Hospital  Service,  largely  in  or  under  the  auspices  of  the  Hygienic 
Laboratory,  has  carried  on  extensive  investigations  on  the  causative 
factors  and  the  possible  prevention  of  tuberculosis,  yellow  fever, 
plague,  leprosy,  typhoid  fever,  pellagra,  diphtheria,  tetanus,  rabies, 
and  other  infectious  and  contagious  diseases. 
The  Hygienic  Laboratory  is  by  law  entrusted  with  the  supervi- 
sion of  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  sera,  vaccines,  and  similar  prod- 
ucts, and  the  Division  of  Bacteriology  has  evolved  and  perfected 
standards  for  antidiphtheritic  serum  and  for  antitetanic  serum  that 
have  been  accepted  without  question  by  the  manufacturers  of  these 
products  and  have  been  favorably  commented  upon  and  endorsed  by 
bacteriologists  and  scientists  generally. 
The  Public  Health  and  Marine-Hospital  Service  has  been  re- 
peatedly accused  of  not  giving  to  pharmacy  the  recognition  that  it 
rightfully  deserves  in  public  health  work.  That  this  accusation  is 
unfounded  and  is,  in  fact,  based  on  a  misconception  of  what  phar- 
macy itself  is,  or  should  be,  is  evidenced  by  the  work  now  done  in 
connection  with  the  Division  of  Pharmacology  of  the  Hygienic 
Laboratory. 
Even  at  the  present  time  this  division  of  the  Hygienic  Laboratory 
