Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-15
PH|LA. TO Be MADE
CENTER IN THERAPY
Proposed Experimental Institute
to Rival Rockefeller School
and Mayo Clinic
PHARMACY COLLEGE PLAN

Another great step toward making
Philadelphia the capital of the medical
world is about to be undertaken--the
creation of national institute Of ex-
perimental therapy. to have relatively
the same scope and energy as the Rocke
feller Institute in the field of pathology
ror the Mayo clinics in the field Of sur
gerry.
7 1t is proposed to put therapeutics on
the same basis of systematic research
and CO. ordination as those two othe:
branches Of medical science.
| This idea IS the overtone in the plans
of Rear Admiral William {. Braisted,
retired. for the regeneration and ex =
pansion of the Philadelphia College
Of Pharmacy and Science. The college
is soon to leave its present site at 145
North Tenth street. a building plot
facing the southern edge Of Clark Park
In West Philadelphia has been ac-
quired. and there within n year the
new college cditice will be started.
Primarily, of course. it will be for
students of pharmacy. but in Admiral
Braisted's vision it is surrounded by the
buildings of the institute which has
spread from it, among them per rhaps Il
hospital Of several thousand beds. At
work In the laboratories of these bui.d-
ings or demonstrating III the clinics are
the best staff of invGstigators--physi-
cians. chemists; pharmaceutists. bactee;
biologists, serologists-that zeal could
assemble.
Impulse In Human Ills
Some of them have other connections
with hospitals. or medical and scientific
schools. or public health organlzat ions,
or laboratories. or practices and busi-
nesses even. Many, though under the
shelter of an assured income from IN
endowment, will be working with sin
gle impulse. that of finding specifics for
given diseases, or of isOlating the mi
crobcs of mysterious maladies and dis
covering means to destroy them.
From time to time bands of these
men will set out for obscure hooks on
the globe to find new drugs or to redis-
cover old ones somehow lost to practice.
and return to replant them in the in
sttutes own gardens: or from the laz-
arpttos of distant countries to bring
back organisms of exotic diseases.
The chaulmoogra plant has been
known to apOthecarics for many. many
decades and for almost as long physi-
clans have known that in n general way
it's juices were good in the treatment Of
leprosy. The OIL however. had an odor
so noxious that neither doctors nor pa
tients could abide it, Not until lately
had it occurred to n chemist to reduce
the oil to the essence-which has been
discovered to be quite tHsteless and
odorless.
The hope in this discovery for mil
lions of miserable mankind was de-
layed merely by the breach of medical
and experimentation away from
pharmacy.
Seek Drug Standardization
At present the bulk of pharmaceuti-
cal research in this country is carried
on in the laboratories of the great drug
and chemical companies. Though some
contributions have come
from these laboratories, research In
them is necessarily on basis largely
and many experiments are
abandoned when their commercial value
becomes doubtful.
Also the inevitably competitive spirit |
makes for needless multiplication of
formulate, thereby making more diff
cult the problem Of drug standardiza.
ton. This problem, incidentally, is one
IF the first tasks that will confront
The institute.
1t was because he saw In it DOS.
sible nucleus for the national institute
at which farsighted scientific men had
long been cOnnlving, that Admiral ,
Braisted, president of the American !
Medical Society and surgeon general of
the navy during the war. consented last |
year to take the presidency Of the Col. |
nf Dlpc Lat
Funds Present Problem !
Before the project can be definitely ,
developed further the problem OF rais- .
ng money must be faced and met. 70 .
'Omplete the institute as Admiral |
3raistcd first conceived it. with build
ngs. hospital. stock farm, botanical
gardens. graduate schools, institutional,
pedagogical and research endowments,
'tc.. would cost several million dollars.
This IL the figure of an estimator with
IN acknowledged knack Of "paring to
he CORE
Strong support from the immense
'lumni membership and from wealthy
'itiZens interested in the undertaking
5 assured.
The campaign will be opened in Sep
ember. Movements among certain
cirntists to locate a national insti-
ute in some other city are meanwhile
That the movement for the institute
nay have the greater part of his time
nd that he may be in constant touch
With all its developing phases. DR..
'raistcd has moved his residence from
Washington to IIaverford.
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