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cal  chemistry,  many  of  which  have  left  an  indelible  imprint  upon 
scientific  medicine. 
It  would  be  a  mistake,  however,  to  assume  that  the  influence  of 
the  Strassburg  laboratory  was  limited  to  these  scientific  discoveries, 
valuable  though  they  were  and  still  are.  It  is  only  necessary  to 
mention  the  names  of  two  well-known  physiological  chemists,  viz., 
Baumann  and  Kossel,  at  one  time  students  in  the  Strassburg  Lab- 
oratory, to  understand  the  nature  of  this  other  influence  which  was 
constantly  exerted  during  the  lifetime  of  Hoppe-Seyler,  and  is  still 
exerted  by  his  illustrious  successor,  Professor  Hofmeister.  In  Bau- 
mann and  Kossel,  as  students  and  assistants  in  the  Strassburg 
Laboratory,  were  found  the  exceptional  minds  ready  to  profit  in 
highest  degree  from  the  instruction  and  inspiration  provided.  The 
smouldering  fire  of  genius  was  fanned  into  flame,  and  two  more 
physiological  chemists  were  started  on  their  way  as  teachers  and 
investigators  in  their  chosen  field.  One,  as  professor  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Freiburg,  lived  long  enough  to  make  his  name  known  wher- 
ever physiology  and  medicine  are  recognized  as  experimental 
sciences.  The  other,  as  professor  at  Marburg  and  now  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Heidelberg,  is  at  the  height  of  his  career  as  one  of  the 
foremost  physiological  chemists  of  this  generation,  adding  each  year 
some  new  fact  to  our  store  of  knowledge  of  physiology  and  experi- 
mental medicine. 
Such,  briefly  depicted,  is  the  character  of  the  influences  that  may 
emanate  from  a  single  laboratory,  and  I  would  use  the  illustration  in 
a  two-fold  manner.  First,  to  indicate  the  enormous  latent  power  in 
a  laboratory  of  any  kind,  properly  equipped  and  wisely  conducted, 
for  the  judicious  training  of  students  and  for  the  discovery  of  im- 
portant scientific  truths — a  power  to  which  there  is  almost  no  lim- 
itation. Second,  to  indicate  the  intimate  relationship  which 
unquestionably  exists  between  physiological  chemistry  and  scientific 
medicine.  Finally,  as  an  ardent  believer  in  the  growing  importance 
of  physiological  chemistry  as  a  means  by  which  many  of  the  intri- 
cate problems  which  to-day  confront  us  in  the  science  and  art  of 
medicine  are  destined  to  be  unraveled,  I  venture  to  prophesy  that  in 
the  development  of  medical  education,  in  harmony  with  the  advance 
of  medical  knowledge,  physiological  chemistry  will  be  found  to 
occupy  a  more  and  more  conspicuous  position. 
