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ABSTRACT AN address on "The Natural History and Chemistry of Drugs" was given to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain by Sir Henry Dale, president of the Royal Society, on


January 13, on the occasion of the award to him of the Hanbury Memorial Medal. In the course of his address, Sir Henry considered the changes in the conceptions of drugs which current


advances in the medical sciences and the changing objective of therapeutics must entail, and raised the question of the future function of pharmacy under the conditions which can be


foreseen. In 1932, the "British Pharmacopœia" included representative examples of the vitamins, the hormones and the immunological products, as well as some of the earlier


synthetic agents of specific chemicotherapy. This represented not merely the introduction of new remedies more effective for the old purposes, but a change in the accepted aim of medicinal


treatment from the relief of symptoms to the removal or prevention of the cause of disease. This will lead in due course to changes in the pharmacist's interests. Eventually the


preparation of the remedies required by progressive therapeutics will fall into the hands of scientific large-scale manufacture; and the individual pharmacist will presumably become little


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