Ah... [What poor timing on his part. Or the Bureau's part. Whichever.] I imagine that would have been helpful in that kind of situation...

[And he's guessing that, if a Chemist didn't step forward in that situation...he really must be the only one. That's precisily the kind of situation where you'd need a Chemist, isn't it? Sounds like it to him.]

That's admittedly the part I'm more interested in as well. If the path was solely concerned with medicines, I wouldn't complain. But I guess we need to be able to defend ourselves too...and it wouldn't be possible to cure a poison if you didn't have an understanding of its properties.