One day in the work of a medicinal chemist

Davidson s lectures on chymistry, delivered in Latin, were devoted mainly to the preparation and uses of medicinal chemicals, with an explanation of the processes and apparatus concerned, and accompanied by practical demonstrations. After Davidson s day, a demonstrator was provided for this latter purpose, one of the most notable of them in the following century being GuUlaume-Fran ois Rouclle, the teacher of I.avoisicr (p. 139)- For some two hundred years after the foundation of the chair of chemistry at the Jardin du Roi, the progress of chemistry in France was closely bound up with the work of the many eminent chemists who worked in this institution as professor or demonstrator of the subject among them were Glaser, Bourdelain, the brothers Rouelle, Macquer, Gay-Lussac and Chevreul. 

A few days ago we asked a well-known organic chemist, one who has been particularly successful in working out the methods for the manufacture of certain much-needed coal-tar medicinals, Suppose during your researches you made some new compound which you believed would prove more efficacious against certain diseases than any of the known compounds whose details of manufacture you have solved, where would you turn to have it tested thoroughly. ... 

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