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THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  CHEMIST  AND  THE  SCOPE 
OF  HIS  WORK.1 
By  Frank  O.  Taylor. 
Each  of  us  is  prone  to  magnify  the  importance  of  that  particular 
branch  of  chemistry  in  which  he  is  actively  engaged,  so  perhaps  I 
may  be  pardoned  for  what,  to  many  of  you,  may  seem  a  biased 
and  erroneous  opinion,  or  evidence  of  a  dense  ignorance  concerning 
other  fields  of  chemical  endeavor,  when  I  say  that  I  believe  no  field 
of  chemistry  is  of  greater  scope  or  more  varied  character  than  that 
of  pharmaceutical  chemistry.  xAnd  yet,  I  hope  to  give  you  such 
reasons  for  the  faith  that  is  in  me  that,  if  not  fully  agreeing,  you 
1  Address  before  the  Detroit  Section  of  the  American  Chemical  Society, 
January  16,  1919.  Reprinted  from  The  Journal  of  Industrial  and  Engineer- 
ing Chemistry,  March,  1919. 
