ANIMAL FOODS. 47 
we behold came in at our mouths, this frame we look upon hath 
been upon our trenchers ; in brief we have devoured ourselves ! ” 
Within quite recent times the medical practice has come 
deservedly into vogue, of curing diseased states due to faulty 
function of some particular organ (glandular for the most part) 
in the human subject, by giving as food, or as an extract, portions 
of the same organ whilst in sound health, taken from a ireshly- 
slaughtered animal. Thus goitre of the throat, and the 
depraved state of system induced thereby, are corrected, 
and the patient restored to full health, by administering 
the neck gland (or its extract)—‘‘ thyroid”—of a healthy 
sheep. Similarly for the urinary difficulties of old men, 
because of the gland (prostate) at the neck of the bladder 
having become thickened with senile deposits, the chopped 
prostate gland of a newly-slaughtered bull is given from 
day to day in small quantities with the most marked benefit. 
Likewise other such cures are being effected by giving for their 
allied diseases the glands, or their prepared extracts, of kidney, 
liver, breast, ovary, etc. Again, an animal extract is being got 
from the (blind) gland which caps the kidney of sheep or ox, and 
which corresponds to the same gland in the human body. This 
extract (adrenalin) has the power to stay bleeding by making the - 
blood-vessels concerned therein contract, and close themselves 
up, even when cut by the surgeon’s knife. But it is of difficult 
production, seeing that each animal gland of this nature (supra- 
renal) can only furnish a quarter of a grain. Also the gastric 
juice secreted by a healthy animal’s stomach, as of the pig, or 
calf, will by its pepsin externally, when dried, cleanse, and serve 
to heal wounds, and sores complicated by sloughing, the pepsin, 
which acts only on dead tissues, faithfully seeking out, and 
breaking up the débris of disorganised cellular structure. The 
sores must be washed thoroughly from time to time. and a fresh 
solution of pepsin again applied. Similarly, for chronic urethral 
soreness, with bladder complications, and disorganized products 
given off within the urinary passages, the injection of pepsin, or 
bougies made therefrom, and passed along, have been found 
eminently successful. : 
Curative preparations of healthy animal organs exercise this 
remedial action within the human body under disease, in one of 
two ways, intrinsic, or extrinsic; the former when they replace 
some necessary secretion which is wanting in the patient; the 
