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the  past  years  is  regretted  by  both  professions  and  their  closer 
union  is  absolutely  necessary  for  the  success  of  each  in  its  humani- 
tarian work. 
The  great  need  of  the  present  day  as  Dr.  Rountree  states  at  the 
close  of  his  address  before  the  Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Thera- 
peutics of  the  American  Medical  Association  is  the  establishment  of 
a  "National  Institute  of  Pharmacology  and  Experimental  Thera- 
peutics.' ' 
This  idea  has  been  in  the  minds  of  some  of  the  trustees  and 
officers  of  the  College  and  it  has  been  thought  that  a  movement  along; 
this  line  might  be  contemplated  with  the  College  of  Pharmacy  and 
Science  of  Philadelphia  as  a  center,  linking  up  its  work  with  a  great 
hospital  existing  or  to  be  built  in  the  city  in  connection  with  a  manu- 
facturing plant  under  the  control  and  direction  of  the  College,  with 
an  adequate  animal  farm  for  biological  products  and  an  extensive 
botanical  and  research  garden  for  the  systematic  study,  cultivation 
and  standardization  of  therapeutic  drug  plants. 
This  would  allow  the  equal  and  co-ordinate  union  of  the  Col- 
lege for  teaching,  research  and  standardizing  all  that  pertains  to- 
pharmacy  and  its  allied  branches  in  chemistry  and  bacteriology,  the 
proper  preparation  for  safe  and  scientific  administration  of  its  prod- 
ucts and  the  determination  of  their  value  at  the  bedside  in  the  asso- 
ciated hospital  by  the  best  staff  of  attending  and  consulting  physi- 
cians the  city  could  produce.  This  would  bring  about,  ideally,  the 
union  of  the  doctor,  the  scientific  pharmacist  and  the  highest  and 
best  method  of  making  the  therapeutic  agent  for  human  use.  As  a 
co-ordinate  body  they  would  work  constantly  together  and  the  final 
approved  therapeutic  agent,  with  its  full  history,  characteristics, 
mode  of  application  and  method  of  manufacture  would  then  be 
given  to  the  world  for  its  use  and  to  the  commercial  manufacturers 
for  production.  No  commercial  element  enters  into  this  proposed 
organization.  For  this  purpose  a  sufficient  endowment  must  be 
raised  to  place  the  College,  the  hospital,  the  manufacturing'  plant 
absolutely  outside  of  any  possible  commercial  implication.  If  pos- 
sible the  patients  at  the  hospital  should  be  free  patients,  but  given 
the  best  of  every  hospital  attention  and  equipment.  Philadelphia, 
which  needs  so  acutely,  larger  facilities  for  the  care  of  its  sick,  could 
well  assist  to  make  so  magnificent  a  contribution  to  the  welfare 
of  its  population  and  indirectly  to  that  of  the  world. 
This  outline  of  the  visions  of  the  possibilities  of  the  future  it  is 
