510  Experimental  Pharmacology.  {^oVSe/igio1' 
If  it  is  desired,  the  tube  may  be  partly  filled  with  pieces  of  pumice 
before  fusing  on  the  side  tubes. 
A  small  test-tube  is  suspended  under  the  stopcock  by  means  of 
a  copper  wire,  to  catch  any  drops  of  H2S04  which  may  fall. 
This  piece  of  apparatus  has  given  great  satisfaction,  as  it  allows 
a  change  of  H2S04  without  the  necessity  of  disconnection. 
Analytical  Dept.,  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
EXPERIMENTAL  PHARMACOLOGY :  AN  ESSENTIAL  IN 
THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  CURRICULUM.* 
By  Rufus  A.  Lyman, 
Director  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  University  of  Nebraska. 
I  have  been  requested  to  express  my  views  upon  this  subject.  I 
make  no  claims  to  the  title  of  a  pharmacologist.  I  wish  to  be  known 
as  a  physician  interested  in  both  medical  and  pharmaceutical  educa- 
tion. I  suppose  because  of  the  interest  I  have  manifested  along  these 
lines,  I  was  asked,  a  short  time  ago,  to  organize  a  school  of  pharmacy 
in  the  University  of  Nebraska,  where  it  was  felt  by  both  educational 
and  professional  men  that  such  an  institution  was  needed  in  order 
that  the  young  men  and  women  of  our  State  might  receive  a  more 
efficient  pharmaceutical  training.  My  remarks  are  inspired  by  my 
experience  as  a  student  of  medicine  of  ten  years  ago,  and  as  a  prac- 
titioner, and  a  teacher  of  medical  and  pharmaceutical  students  since 
that  time. 
In  a  former  paper,  I  have  quoted  the  following  statement  made 
by  Professor  J.  T.  Halsey  of  Tulane  University :  "  A  study  of  the 
current  and  past  therapeutic  literature  will,  I  believe,  convince  any 
doubter  who  possesses  sufficient  knowledge  to  enable  him  to  form 
an  intelligent  opinion,  that  there  is  no  branch  of  medical  science, 
other  than  therapeutics,  wherein  medical  men  display  a  more 
culpable  and  harmful  ignorance  of  essential  facts  than  is  the  case 
with  pharmacology.  Without  an  exact  knowledge  of  the  pharma- 
cological action  of  some,  at  least,  of  our  important  drugs,  a  physician 
must  become  and  remain  an  empiricist,  one  shooting  in  the  dark 
with  deadly  weapons  whose  range  and  power  are  unknown  to 
*  Read  before  the  Section  on  Education  and  Legislation  of  the  A.  Ph.  A., 
Richmond,  Virginia,  May,  1910. 
