Victor Myers and the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital

Victor Caryl Myers received the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He then entered Yale University as a graduate student and studied under Lafayette B. Mendel and Russell Chittenden at the Sheffield Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry. In 1911 he was invited by the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital to organize a physiological chemistry laboratory—one of the first in the nation. Victor Caryl Myers noted that advances since 1912 had been very rapid, and that there were many practical tests with which the efficient physician and surgeon must be familiar. Victor Caryl Myers's laboratory report form lists the analytes reviewed in his book and identifies the following seven as having special practical usefulness: hemoglobin, uric acid, urea nitrogen, creatinine, sugar, chlorides, and CO₂-combining power. In 1920–21 Victor Caryl Myers published a series of eight articles in the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine under the title of "Chemical Changes in the Blood in Disease".