. American journal of pharmacy. toxalbumins, and otherintoxications produce identical symptoms ; all these proved likewiseto be syndromes due primarily to adrenal insufficiency. Dr. Sajous seems to us to have shown that the adrenal systemis the source of the secretion which, with the oxygen of the aii,forms the oxidizing substance of the blood-plasma. It has also re-vealed the origin and mode of distribution of the bodies with whichthis oxygen directly or indirectly combines; , peptones, myos-inogen, fibrinogen, haemoglobin, and myelin, to insure the continua-tion of life and the efficienc
. American journal of pharmacy. toxalbumins, and otherintoxications produce identical symptoms ; all these proved likewiseto be syndromes due primarily to adrenal insufficiency. Dr. Sajous seems to us to have shown that the adrenal systemis the source of the secretion which, with the oxygen of the aii,forms the oxidizing substance of the blood-plasma. It has also re-vealed the origin and mode of distribution of the bodies with whichthis oxygen directly or indirectly combines; , peptones, myos-inogen, fibrinogen, haemoglobin, and myelin, to insure the continua-tion of life and the efficiency of all organic functions. Finally, ithas suggested that in addition to these agencies, all leucocytes and,under certain circumstances, the plasma, contain a protective agency,trypsin, which, with Metchnikoffs phagocytic cells, serves to destroymicro-organisms and convert their toxins and other albuminoidpoisons into harmless products. Considered jointly, these variousfactors seem to represent the aggregate of vital JOHN MICHAEL MAISCH. From a pliotof^raph by GutekunU. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY AUGUST, igoj. JOHN MICHAEL MAISCH, AN IDEAL PHARMACIST. By M. I. WiLBERT,Apothecary at the German Hospital, Philadelphia. ^ There are but few active workers in pharmacy that do not knowand honor the name of John Michael Maisch, the one-time professorof materia medica and botany in the Philadelphia College of Phar-macy. So deeply impressed is his work on the everyday course ofpharmaceutical progress in this country, that it is at times difficultto realize that his lips have been sealed and his pen has been stilledfor nearly ten long years. Ten years constitute a period of timethat is ample to indicate the value or worth of a life that has beenlived; a period of time sufficiently long to demonstrate and pointout to us the strong points of a noble nature, and to spread the nameand fame of the few able and willing workers who, during theiractive life, thought little of th
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