American journal of pharmacy . om a theoretical toa practical and demonstrative basis. This momentous change, thanwhich nothing more revolutionary and beneficent has been achievedin the history of the intellectual development of the race, has beenthe result of the establishment of laboratories in which research inmedical science might be conducted. By means of the facilities Am. Jour. , 1904. TJie Niw Medical Laboratories. 315 offered in these laboratories, workers have not only enormouslyincreased our knowledge of the structure and functions of thehuman body, and of the nature of d
American journal of pharmacy . om a theoretical toa practical and demonstrative basis. This momentous change, thanwhich nothing more revolutionary and beneficent has been achievedin the history of the intellectual development of the race, has beenthe result of the establishment of laboratories in which research inmedical science might be conducted. By means of the facilities Am. Jour. , 1904. TJie Niw Medical Laboratories. 315 offered in these laboratories, workers have not only enormouslyincreased our knowledge of the structure and functions of thehuman body, and of the nature of disease, but have also providedmethods which have already robbed some of the most direful pesti-lences of their chief terrors. Hitherto America has scarcely keptpace with foreign countries in provision for scientific study in medi-cine and in incentives to its prosecution. While this aspect ofmedical education has not been wholly disregarded in this country,the limitations placed upon institutions of learning by their inability. The New Medical Laboratories of the University of PennsylTania. to provide adequately out of their means for the support of labora-tories has had a detrimental effect upon the growth of Americanmedicine. In other countries the national and municipal govern-ments have done what in this country is left to the accident of privateinclination and beneficence. In view of these contingencies, the University of Pennsylvania hasconstructed a new medical laboratory which was formally dedicatedon June 10, 1904. In completeness of equipment this new buildingis without a rival. It provides for the teaching of students and thecarrying on of research work on physiology, j^^athology and phar- 3i6 The New Medical Laboratories. {/u im• macology, in which departments of medicine the greatest advanceshave been made in the past, and may be predicted for the future. The opening of these laboratories is not simply of local but ofnational interest. The construction of the bui
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