Report on the experience of medical men who have used "pancreatic emulsion of fat" / by Horace Dobell.

  • Horace Dobell
Date:
1867
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Credit: Report on the experience of medical men who have used "pancreatic emulsion of fat" / by Horace Dobell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ive you found that ents can take the iilsion when they lot take Cod-liver lsually taken with- objection, as eted. ae cases it has been y tolerated when Oil disagreed. 5.—What is your opinion of the effects of the Emulsion in :—1. The true first stage of Con¬ sumption (Pre-tubercu- lar) ? 2. The stage of Tuberculisation P 3. The stage of Softening 4. The stage of Excava¬ tion ? No report as to the stage in which it was given. GENERAL REMARKS. cannot say that I have obtained, as yet, any definite results, tending to the belief, that we have in the new remedy a specific for tubercular disease; or, even in a special sense, a palliative of its leading symptoms. in 187 published s, Emulsion agreed 180; disagreed in n. Cod-liver Oil ;ed in seventy-five, greed in ninety- t; was not tried in teen. In the 187 s of which I have b ished results, no i -liver Oil was f» n during treatment W i Emulsion, so as to confuse the 8 its of the two re- li ies. But in daily e tice, I recommend 9 . Oil and Emulsion 1 >e taken, if the 3 lach will bear i li. The proportion I cases in which k] jilsion agrees will i be as large as here |id, unless care is <In to correct obvious | j pts in digestion by (r remedies. 1. That it materially con¬ tributes towards effect¬ ing a radical cure, as explained in my Lec¬ tures “ On the True First Stage of Con¬ sumption.” 2. In forty-five cases, results measured by general symptoms, forty-four improved, one stationary ; mea¬ sured by physical signs, thirty-one im¬ proved, thirteen sta¬ tionary, one worse. 3. In sixty-nine cases, results measured by general symptoms, fifty-nine improved, five stationary, three worse, two not noted; measured by physical signs, fifty-two im¬ proved, eleven sta¬ tionary, four worse, two not noted. 4. In seventy-three cases, measured by general symptoms, fifty-five improved, three stati¬ onary, fourteen worse; measured by physical signs, thirty-five im¬ proved, twenty - two stationary, thirteen worse, three not noted. In the True First Stage, my experience is derived principally from private practice, such cases not often appearing at hospitals. Of the 2,500 hospital cases who have taken the Emul¬ sion, many have been in an extremely advanced stage of disease; and in some of these the Emulsion has appeared to prolong life in a remarkable manner, being retained on the stomach long after all other kinds of food had ceased to be tolerated. Whereas oleinous fats, and especially Cod-liver Oil, are absorbed into the blood through the portal system, and serve an important purpose by rapidly presenting themselves for combustion and histo¬ genesis ; they do not, and cannot, take the place of the solid fats—rich in margarin and stearin, fusible at higher temperatures than olein, and less easily oxidisable—which can only be absorbed by the lacteal system after pancreatization. This accounts for the remarkable stability of the improvement which accompanies and follows the administration of Pancreatic Emulsion, after Cod-liver Oil has been given without success, or with very evanescent success. B 2
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