[Nephritin / Laboratories of Reed & Carnrick].

Reed & Carnrick.

Date:: [between 1900 and 1999?]

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Credit: [Nephritin / Laboratories of Reed & Carnrick]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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NEPHRITIN. THE idea ot treating diseases of the kidney by organo¬ therapy is not new, but in the great number of ex¬ periments the trouble has been in removing from the kidney the exact product, which was necessary, and not to use those other portions of the kidney which would act as an irritant. It was not until 1903, when, after careful research, Renaut employed the maceration of the kidney in which he was able to extract the “grains of segregation’ that the first marked results appeared. It was in May 1906, when, after further scientific research, we were able to give these “grains of segregation”, with the other important ferments of the kidney, unchanged, and in a tablet form (NEPHRITIN), that a fresh and lasting impetus was given to opotherapy in the treatment of renal disturbances. These “grains of segregation”, or the vital substance (ferments) of the cells of the kidney, have been found to be uninjured by stomach digestion. Our work has been to take from the cells of the cortex of the kidney, these “grains of segregation” with the other ferments in their original form, and uninjured by the action of heat, moisture or chemicals* giving it a definite stand¬ ard, so that it might be readily used by physicians who desire to treat their cases of Bright’s and other kindred forms of Nephritis. It is most gratifying to note that NEPHRITIN for the past two years has been used at the beginning, where for¬ merly it was given when all other remedies had been tried and the patient’s life despaired of. It was, however, the demonstration of “making good” in these cases where every thing else had failed, that has established NEPHRITIN on its firm footing, until now physicians appreciate the fact that the sooner the patient with kidney disease is put upon NEPHRITIN the better the results.