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Pharmacology During the Past Sixty Years

Pharmacology During the Past Sixty Years By HENRY H. DALE 52 Queen Anne Street, London, W.l., England Having been invited to give a "popular" lecture to members and friends of the British Medical Assocaition attending its Annual Meeting in July 1948, I chose as my subject "Accident and Opportunism in Medical Research." Now, just 14 years later, as I prepare to respond to another flattering invita­ tion, on this occasion to write a Prefatory Chapter for next year's (1963) Annual Review of Pharmacology, it occurs to me that my own connexion with pharmacology was the result of an unexpected opportunity, which I felt bound to accept, and not of any deliberate intention or planning of my own. And that, in keeping with this casual origin, nearly all the investigations in which I had the privilege thereafter to take part, during the period of nearly 40 years of activity which ended with my retirement, now 20 years ago, were concerned with problems or phenomena which were bro ught to my notice by requests, or encountered by accident while I was following such sugges­ tions from others, and never with any plan of research which I had chosen for myself and consistently followed. I greatly admire http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology Annual Reviews

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Annual Reviews
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Copyright 1963 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
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0362-1642
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10.1146/annurev.pa.03.040163.000245
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By HENRY H. DALE 52 Queen Anne Street, London, W.l., England Having been invited to give a "popular" lecture to members and friends of the British Medical Assocaition attending its Annual Meeting in July 1948, I chose as my subject "Accident and Opportunism in Medical Research." Now, just 14 years later, as I prepare to respond to another flattering invita­ tion, on this occasion to write a Prefatory Chapter for next year's (1963) Annual Review of Pharmacology, it occurs to me that my own connexion with pharmacology was the result of an unexpected opportunity, which I felt bound to accept, and not of any deliberate intention or planning of my own. And that, in keeping with this casual origin, nearly all the investigations in which I had the privilege thereafter to take part, during the period of nearly 40 years of activity which ended with my retirement, now 20 years ago, were concerned with problems or phenomena which were bro ught to my notice by requests, or encountered by accident while I was following such sugges­ tions from others, and never with any plan of research which I had chosen for myself and consistently followed. I greatly admire

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Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology – Annual Reviews

Published: Apr 1, 1963

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