The experience and opinions of medical men on the value of pancreatic emulsion and pancreatine as remedies in wasting diseases / [collected] by Savory and Moore.

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[1871?]
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Credit: The experience and opinions of medical men on the value of pancreatic emulsion and pancreatine as remedies in wasting diseases / [collected] by Savory and Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been found that in many cases they restore the power of digesting the oil. Until the introduction of Pancreatic Emulsion there was no fattening remedy known for those with whom Cod Liver Oil disagreed; this fact alone sufficiently indicates the importance of the subject of these pages, but they will show that Pancreatic Emulsion is destined to rank before Cod Liver Oil, in consequence of its powers of restoring digestion and of introducing* the stable solid fats into the system instead of the more evanescent fluid fats or oils. (See Chemical News, Sept. 4th, 1868, on Solid and Liquid Fats; also pages 6 and 10). Pancreatic Emulsion was originated by Dr. Dobell after a long series of experiments, and first administered by him to patients suffering from consumption and wasting diseases, at the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. Having- satisfied himself of its important remedial proper¬ ties, he made the remedy public for the benefit of the profession and of the sick, refusing to accept or to reserve to himself the slightest benefit from the discovery beyond the scientific credit which might attach to it. In 1864, he commenced the publication, in the t pages of the Lancet, of the cases treated with Pancreatic Emulsion at the Royal Hospital, and continued to publish them from time to time during the years 1865-6. (See Reports, pp. 13-23). During these three years great improvements were made in the mode of manufacturing the Emulsion ; the greatest difficulties being to make