The propaganda for reform in proprietary medicines / [Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Assoication].

Date:
[1910?]
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Credit: The propaganda for reform in proprietary medicines / [Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Assoication]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that on the average the genuine meat juices—that is, those made by pressure, direct from the meat itself as wanted—are much superior to the commercial products, notwithstanding the marked concentration in some cases. The calories given in the accompanying table do not include sugar, alcohol or any other added material of this character. WYETH’S BEEF JUICE “Wyeth’s Beef Juice” is not a true beef juice, but resem- bles rather a diluted meat extract. It contains much added inorganic matter, is low in coagulable proteins, and con- sidering the degree of concentration, relatively deficient’ in nutritive value. Some of the claims contained in the circular accompanying this preparation, in view of its composition set forth above, may be of interest: “Wyeth’s Beef Juice .. . , containing two fluid ounces and representing three pounds of prime lean beef, . beef extracts made by the Liebig process are utterly devoid of the | valuable and nutritious albuminous constituents of - meat, [Wyeth’s Beet, Juice] ‘should not be compared with ordinary beef extract, 5 BOVININE Bovinine, advertised as a “condensed beef juice prepared by a cold process” is a mixture of alcohol, glycerin, added sodium chlorid, and apparently some form of defibrinated blood. Ac- cording to the manufacturer’s literature egg albumin was used formerly but this ingredient is said to be no longer employed. It is not a meat juice in any sense of the word. Numerous misrepresentations will be found on the label and in the literature of Bovinine, of which the following are typical: “The blood of selected steers prepared by a cold process, furnish- ing a perfect food, free from insoluble elements.” “The rapidity with which Bovinine is absorbed and assimilated in the stomach “Tt supplies sont nutrition to the patient.’ “Bovinine contains all the elements of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms for the production of new blood with great rapidity. Its principal constituents have been selected with a view to furnish the largest amount of nutriment in the most con- densed form and all the resources of modern chemical analysis have been brought to bear on this important problem.” A series of experiments carried out with dogs under anes- thesia, by injecting Bovinine into the stomach, the pyloric end of. which was ligated, shows that Bovinine is not readily ab- sorbed and assimilated by the stomach as claimed. The amount of protein material found in the stomach at the end of one-half hour to one hour and a quarter was practically equal to the amount introduced by the Bovinine.
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