Evening star., 1925-02-09
BIG CHEMISTRY CENTER
TO BE ESTABLISHED BY
GEORGETOWN U. HERE

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F, thoroughly non -sectarian. takes it's
inspiration from the work of Pasteur
and Lister, For two years the most
eminent specialists in the country.
aroused by Government figures on
the present health rate and the eco
nomic loss shown in 100 per cent
increase In the drug trade within
three years, have labored to sound
reaearch in mastering the secrets of
the human body.
Thorough study Made.
AS committee chosen by the
American Chemical Society, they pur-
sued painstaking inquiry and fina' ly
issued report on the future inde-
pendence and progress of American
medicine in the age of chemi stry.
This report was addressed particular
ly to physicians and surgeons, moth
ers and fathers, educators, hospital
directors and trustees, as we'll as to
all others whose hearts are interest
ed in the welfare of the future gen
erations of American children.
This committee of scientists con-
armacology. Johns Hopkins Medi-
cal School, Baltimore, Nd; editor,
Journal Pharmacology and Expert
mental Therapeutics; Carl L. AlsberE,
director Food Research Institute,
Stanford University, California; for
merly chief of the Bureau of Chemis-
try, Department of Agriculture;
member Council of Pharmacy and
Chemistry, American Medical Asso
i.,t, = to-, 4 Y Il
Mellon Institute for Industrial Re
search, Pittsburgh. Pa; F. r. Eldred,
chemical consultant, Eli Lilly & Co,
indianapolis, Ind: Reid Hunt, pro-
fessor of pharmacology, Harvard
Medical School, Boston. Mass; for
merly of United States Public He~1th
Service: president United : $
Pharmacopoeia Convention: Trea Is.
Johnson, professor of organic chem
istry, Yale University, New Haven,
Conn; Julius Stieglitz, chairman de-
partment of chemistry, University of
Chicago. Chicago, ILL.,; past presi-
dent American Chemical Society
chairman subcommittee on synthetic
drugs, National Research Council;
vice chairman Council of Chemistry
and Pharmacy, American Medical As
sociation; F. o. Taylor, chief chemist,
Parke. Davis & Co, Detroit, Mich
Charles H. Herty. chairman: editor
journal of Industrial and Engineer
ing Chemistry, New York city; past
president American Chemical Society.
The goal sought is prolonging hu-
man life, preserving health and van
gushing disease. The discovery of
specific remedies to check or COM
pletely rout tuberculosis, cancer,
pneumonia, nephritis and heart dis
ease, which five forms of disease
year, will be sought. New antitoxins
to vanquish germ poisons will be
discovered, these scientific experts
claim.
Georgetown University proposes to
erect a chemical laboratory which,
while supplying needed facilities for the
Arts and Science School, will at the
same time contain a completely sepa-
rate Institute of Chemical Nj Medical
Research, equipped with all modern
facilities of apparatus and materials.
Purpose Is Explained.
Here eminent specialists, free from
the burden of teaching and in the
security of a comfortable living, can
devote themselves to chemo-m edical
research in almost ideal conditions
to the end that human suffering may
be relieved. Georgetown University
has undertaken this duty, 1t is ex-
planned by President Lyons, since it
is agreed that the Nation must look
to private institutions rather than
to Industrial or governmental labora-
tories to perform it..
Besides the general laboratories
private laboratories for the heads of
departments and their associates will
be provided, so arranged as to lead
tn tra o1I
easily gather at a research round
table for conference and exchange of
ideas and experiences. Qualified
workers in chemical therapy from
other institutions will be provided with
working quarters, where, because of
the complete equipment, they may
avoid loss of valuable time in begin
ming work on their particular prob
lens.
Georgetown University is under
stood to have wide support because
Of its location in Washington. There
is in Washington a vast array of
Government laboratories engaged on
almost every type of scientific prob
lem. Employed therein are more
than 1000 scientists.
The new research institute will en-
joy the advantages of close contact
with these workers and make avaiIa-
BILE for consultation their varied
knowledge and experience, besides
enIjst;ng the advice and aid of the
distirs Iished foreign scientists and
members of scientific associations
who inevitably come to the Nation S
Capital.
Libraries are Help.
Washington also furnishes oppor-
tunity for reference and research
books. The various scientific libraries
connected with the departmental la
boratories will supplement the Lii
brary of Congress and the library of
the Army and Navy Medical Museum
Justly famed for its special collec-
tion of the rare and most varied
works on niedicine-all available to
Investigators. In such surroundings
where medical research will find
chemical equipment to attack its
basic problems the Georgetown Uni
versity faculty, the American Chemi-
cal Society and the scientific leaders
of the country confidently hope for
success in their solution.
Incidentally, Georgetown Univer-
sity is establishing in the Nations
Capital a fully equipped laboratory
and chemical center, with a trained
staff of workers to offer to the Ma
tion in any emergency of peace or
war.