Abel, John Jacob

C. John Jacob Abel occupied the first chair of a department of pharmacology in the United States. 

In his 46 years at Strasbourg, Schmiedeberg trained a number of preeminent scientists who populated the great centers of scientific learning throughout many countries. One of these was John Jacob Abel. Abel became the first chairman of pharmacology... 

John Jacob Abel is known as the lather of American pharmacology. He was the first professor of pharmacology in the United States and founder of the first department of pharmacology at the University of Michigan. Abel also founded the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in 1908. 

The evidence for histamine being present in the gastric mucosa had initially been presented by John Jacob Abel on April 25,1919. Abel was convinced that all the motilines, peristaltic hormones, vaso dilantins and histamine-like substances in tissues were one and the same substance-histamine. ... 

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