title: Contributions to neurochemical knowledge considered ecologically.
abstract: The development of neurochemical knowledge is traced through the following stages: (1) Beginnings with academic medicine: a dissertation of 1719, (2) Relations with chemistry and scientific journals of around 1800, (3) A review and the naming of neurochemistry in 1856, (4) Government publication of neurochemistry; a full-time chemist of the brain, (5) Success in a biochemical environment, 1900-1940, (6) Neurochemistry with the neurosciences, (7) Neurochemical environments of 1955-1957.
authors.affiliation: Pharmacology Department, Birmingham University Medical School, England.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: McIlwain
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D001671:Biochemistry / Q000266:history; D001877:Books; D005060:Europe; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009448:Neurochemistry / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000266:history; D012931:Social Environment; D014495:Universities