ABSTRACT
Well, for the author money, the story starts with Langley the author remember giving a review paper at some conference and, in the process of typing out the author contribution, he mentioned Langley and the typist in the office wrote 1978. The author originally did chemistry in Birmingham and he was sent to Oxford to do some tests on some compounds that were made in Birmingham during the last war. Whitteridge, who was working in the department of physiology, coined the phrase that the department of pharmacology fiddled while Burn roamed. Ahlquist was a funny chap. He tried to get that paper published by the American Journal of Pharmacology which refused to print it. The author was rather surprised, when he had been around for 10 years or so in pharmacology, to realize that it was chemists in drug houses who drove things.
