six  Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
Nor.  1,1873.  J 
Notes  on  Pancreatine 
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After  a  series  of  experiments,  at  the  request  of,  and  assisted  by,  a 
medical  friend,  the  writer  of  this  has  perfected  the  following  formula, 
which  he  offers  to  his  professional  brethren,  hoping  that  it  may  prove 
useful : 
Oleum  morrhuae,       .....  fl.Jviij. 
Tragacanth,         .....  ^j. 
Sacchar.  alb.,  .....  3iv. 
01.  gaultheriaa,     .....  gtt.  lx. 
"  sassafras,  .  .  .  .  .  gtt.  1. 
"  amygd.  amar.,  ....  gtt.  x. 
Aquae,  ......  fl.^viij. 
The  tragacanth  and  sugar  are  to  be  dissolved  in  the  water  and  the 
mucilage  strained.  In  this  is  to  be  incorporated  first  the  essential 
oils  and  then  the  cod  liver  oil.  This  makes  an  elegant-looking  emul- 
sion, not  too  thick,  containing  fifty  per  cent,  of  the  oil,  and  of  a 
rather  pleasant  taste  and  smell. 
Many  manufacturers  combine  the  lacto-phosphate  of  lime,  etc., 
with  the  cod  liver  oil  mixture,  but  as  physicians  often  consider  this 
decidedly  objectionable  in  a  medicine  intended,  as  this  is,  in  most 
cases,  for  continued  use  for  a  considerably  protracted  length  of  time, 
the  author  has  been  induced  to  omit  it.  It  can  be  added,  however, 
by  a  slight  modification  of  the  »bove  formnln. 
NOTES  ON  PANCREATIN. 
By  Richard  Y.  Mattison. 
(Read  at  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  November  18.) 
The  increasing  popularity  of  pharmaceutical  preparations  of  this 
valuable  substance  induces  the  writer  to  offer  to  the  profession  a  few 
notes  on  the  subject,  hoping  they  may  be  of  service  in  the  elimina- 
tion and  proper  exhibition  of  it  in  a  medicinal  form,  which  will  be 
pleasant  and  agreeable  both  to  the  sight  and  palate. 
Prefacing  these  remarks,  a  short  notice  of  the  pancreas  and  its 
action  will  be  found  interesting.  This  is  situated  within  the  curve 
formed  by  the  duodenum,  and  opens  into  the  intestine  by  a,  duct 
common  to  itself  and  liver.  In  its  anatomy  it  closely  resembles  the 
salivary  glands,  and  the  fluid  elaborated  by  it,  called  pancreatic  fluid, 
appears  almost  identical  with  ptyalin.  Like  this  secretion,  pancreatic 
fluid,  when  pure,  is  a  colorless,  transparent  and  slightly  viscid  liquid, 
