The Field for Research in Indian Indigenous Drugs *From materials kindly supplied by Major R. N. Chopra, I.M.S. and Dr. B. N. Ghosh, Department of Pharmacology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, from a paper read at the Medical Section of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

sues to drug solutions is seen to be dependent upon many biological factors : upon electric potential, conditions of solubility and ionisation and the like. In brief, modern pharmacology of to-day has become an exact and exacting science, calling alike upon the biologist, the expert chemist, the physiologist, and the pharmacist to assist in building up a new science of therapy, dependent upon a rational and experimental basis. Is it necessary to set against this the present position in India ? In the medical schools and colleges of India pharmacology is, as a rule, reduced to materia medica: only the dry bones