The three kinds of cod liver oil : comparatively considered with reference to their chemical and therapeutic properties / by L.J. de Jongh ; translated from the German, with an appendix and cases, by Edward Carey.

Date:
1849
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    a remedy which is daily becoming more known and appre- ciated, not only by the profession, but by the public gene- rally, I am led to hope that it may prove acceptable to the English reader.* As the German Translator observes in his Preface, it was not the intention of the author to form a monograph of the History of the Cod Liver Oil, to laud it as a therapeutic agent, or to give it new medicinal properties when pre- scribed in particular cases, but to furnish information on some points respecting the operation of this remedy not prcAdously explained, and to examine the three kinds of oil which are in common use, as well in reference to their origin as their chemical composition, and their comparative therapeutic properties. This has been so accurately done, that at all events the solution of the questions—What is the origin and method of preparation of the different kinds of Bergen Oil? What are the external signs by which they may be recognised ? What its chemical composition—and in what respects they differ in this relation? has been quite determined; while a nearer approach has been made towards investigating which of the three kinds possess the greatest efficacy. It cannot be supposed that researches of this nature can * This analysis is also referred to by Dr. J. Pereira, in an article on Cod Liver Oil in the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions for February, 1849.