Research institutions and museums founded by Henry S. Wellcome.

Date:
[1930?]
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Credit: Research institutions and museums founded by Henry S. Wellcome. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Chemical Research Laboratories T. A. HENRY, D.SC. (Lond.), Director 6, Kino- Street, LONDON, E.C.I When these Laboratories were established over thirty years ago, little was known regarding the composition of many of the natural drugs in common use, the production of synthetic drugs was j List beginning, and few chemists had the temerity to work at such biological problems as the isolation of hormones. The advance in therapeutics made since then has been mainly in these three directions, and the work done in these Laboratories has been of the varied character necessary to keep in touch with these lines of progress. Many natural drugs have been exhaustively investigated and their active principles isolated and characterised. In association with The Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories these have been examined pharmacologically, and, as a result, the use in medicine of many natural drugs has been placed on a sound scientific basis, and in some instances alkaloids and other active principles of plants have been made available to the physician in a pure condition for the first time. The information gained in these investigations has suggested new lines of work for the production of synthetic drugs, and many new substances of this kind have been prepared and tested. Recently, with the co-operation of The Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, much attention has been given to work on organo-metallic compounds for the treatment of specific protozoal diseases. These varied investigations have involved the solution of many purely chemical problems, and have therefore led to valuable additions to our knowledge of pure chemistry, as well as to results of practical therapeutic value.