448 
Research  in  Pharmacy  Colleges. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
<-      October,  19 17. 
Resorcin 
1  per  cent. 
(may  be  replaced  by  B-Naphthol  54  Per  cent.) 
Oil  of  Eucalyptus   
Olive  Oil  
Soft  Pararffin   
Hard  Paraffin   
2  per  cent. 
5  per  cent. 
25  per  cent. 
67  per  cent. 
Another  preparation  which  no  doubt  will  have  permanent  value 
is  the  Carrel-Dakin  solution  of  the  hypochlorites. 
The  intensive  experiments  in  the  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants, 
the  efforts  of  everyone  to  make  himself  independent  of  his  neigh- 
bor, the  efforts  to  avoid  or  utilize  waste-products — all  this  must 
eventually  rebound  to  the  benefit  of  mankind. 
There  is  no  doubt  in  my  mind  that  when  our  hour  of  trial  comes, 
when  medicines  become  scarce  in  amount  and  high  in  price,  the 
inventive  genius  of  the  American  pharmacist  will  assert  itself  and 
when  the  fray  is  over  will  proudly  take  its  place  among  those  who 
have  contributed  to  the  welfare  of  mankind. 
That  the  sum  total  of  knowledge,  which  we  delegates  to  the 
meetings  of  the  American  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties 
teach  to  our  students,  is  the  result  of  millions  of  experiments  of 
thousands  of  experimenters  is  self-evident.  No  one  of  us  who 
enjoys  library  work  can  but  realize  the  enormous  debt  we  owe  to 
the  research  men  of  the  past,  be  they  patient  plodders  of  little  fame, 
or  brilliant  investigators  whose  names  are  almost  household  words. 
And  how  are  we  of  the  present  generation  of  teachers  paying  this 
debt  ?  Are  we  looking  wise  and  doing  nothing  ?  Are  we  living  up 
(or  down,  if  you  like)  to  the  impertinent  query  on  a  modern  post- 
card :  "  Do  you  ever  spend  anything  besides  the  evening  ?  "  Or  are 
we  doing  our  bit;  thus  adding  our  trifle  to  the  enormous  mass  of 
information  inherited  from  our  predecessors? 
The  study  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  and  of  the  pharmaceutical  journals  of  the  nineteenth 
1  Read  before  the  American  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties, 
August,  1917. 
RESEARCH  IN  PHARMACY  COLLEGES1 
By  H.  V.  Arny. 
