On fluid meat : a new preparation of meat, especially adapted to weak stomachs, and for invalids generally, with remarks on food / by Stephen Darby.

  • Darby, Stephen
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1870
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Credit: On fluid meat : a new preparation of meat, especially adapted to weak stomachs, and for invalids generally, with remarks on food / by Stephen Darby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    importance, nay, the necessity, for the further pursuit of the subject by scientific methods in this direction to obtain less objectionable articles of diet for both invalids and the healthy. Baron Liebig himself is far too candid to attempt concealment of these truths. In a communication to the Lancet in 1865, respecting his Extractum Carnis, which was then beginning to excite attention, he says, Were it possible to furnish the market at a reasonable price with a preparation of meat combining in itself the albuminous, together with the extractive principles, such a preparation would have to be preferred to the Extractum Carnis, for it would contain the nutrient constituents of Meat. And, again, speaking of his own preparation, he says, I have already stated that in preparing the Extract of Meat the albuminous principles remain in the residues, they are lost for nutrition, and this certainly is a great disadvantage. At the suggestion of Dr. Pavy,of Guy's Hospital, I undertook some experimental investigations to determine whether or no such a preparation were practicable, and after the expenditure of much labor and thought, and the experience of many
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