"We pharmacologists must acquire a knowledge of the tools we use . . . Fortunately a surgeon who uses the wrong side of a scalpel cuts his own fingers and not the patient; if the same applied to drugs they would have been investigated very carefully a long time ago . . . More ceterum censeo is perhaps necessary in order to rouse pharmacology from its sleep. The sleep is not a natural one since pharma cology, as judged by its past accomplishments, has no reason for being tired. " From R. Buchheim Beitrage zur Arzneimittel/ehre, Voss, Leipzig, 1849. Chapter 1 Preface and introduction Methods,...