338       Development  of  the  Medical  Laboratories.  {AmjJu°1^-]|>(Sarm' 
investigation  of  a  human  disease  ever  made  on  animals,  namely,  that 
on  "  Sunstroke,  or  Thermic  Fever,"  published  in  1870,  a  research 
which  was  so  complete  and  final  that  of  it  Professor  Osier  wrote  in 
1895  :  "Very  little  has  been  added  to  our  knowledge  of  sunstrokes 
since  its  completion."  Some  of  the  papers  which  emanated  from 
this  impromptu  laboratory  have  had  their  results  challenged,  but  a 
reinvestigation  of  the  subject  has  in  all  cases  confirmed  the  original 
conclusions,  so  that  the  accuracy  of  the  out-door-greenhouse-stable 
work  has  been  established  by  time. 
In  1870  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  moved  from 
NintlvStreet  to  its  present  location;  but,  although  one  or  two  rooms 
were  assigned  to  the  professor  of  physiology,  no  experimental  work 
seems  to  have  been  done  in  them,  so  that  for  some  years  longer  the 
institution  was  still  dependent  upon  the  bountifulness  of  Dr.  George 
B.  Wood  for  the  continuation  of  its  laboratory  activity. 
It  is  a  rather  remarkable  fact,  though  probably  in  accordance  with 
the  ordinary  laws  of  progress,  that  in  passing  from  the  old  to  the 
new  regime  at  the  University,  there  were  appointed  demonstrators 
who  were  experimentalists  and  who  from  time  to  time  made  various 
researches,  although  the  professor  to  whom  they  were  subordinate 
was  in  no  proper  sense  a  practical  physiologist.  The  first  demon, 
strator  of  physiology  was  Dr,  Henry  C.  Chapman,  appointed  in 
1876;  he  was  followed  in  the  fall  of  1877  by  Dr.  B.  F.  Lautenbach, 
who  in  turn  was  succeeded  in  1878  by  Dr.  Robert  Meade  Smith. 
In  1876  I  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  therapeutics,  being  the  first 
professor  suffering  from  the  itch  for  experimentation  who  had  ever 
been  injected  into  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University, 
chemists  excepted.  All  the  rooms  which  might  possibly  have  been 
used  for  a  pharmacological  laboratory  were  fully  occupied  ;  the 
plans  of  the  building  had,  however,  fortunately  been  chiefly  over, 
looked  by  Professor  Rogers,  who  had  reserved  the  lion's  share  for 
himself,  and  after  some  discussion  it  was  decided  that  some  of  Pro- 
fessor Rogers'  rooms  should  be  occupied  by  the  janitor,  and  the 
apartment  which  had  been  allotted  to  that  worthy  should  be  given 
to  me.  No  allowance  was  made  by  the  University  for  the  furnishing 
of  these  rooms  or  for  the  purchase  of  furniture  or  of  apparatus.  I 
remember  with  what  glee  I  bought  for  five  dollars  at  the  auction  of 
the  debris  of  the  great  Centennial  celebration,  in  1876,  a  very  large 
heavy  table  which  had  been  made  for  the  purpose  of  the  draughts- 
