Abstract
IN his presidential address to the Chemical Section of the British Association last year, Prof. G. Barger pointed out that “the use of vegetable drugs led pharmacists to examine the constituents of plants and thus the foundations of descriptive biochemistry were laid”. He suggested later on that “whilst organic chemists are often eager to investigate the constitution of animal and vegetable substances, they are less ready to undertake the preliminaries of purification and isolation and are therefore less apt to discover new ones”.
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H., T. Chinese and Malayan Medicine. Nature 125, 862–864 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125862a0
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