A treatise on the employment of glycerine in the treatment of saccharine diabetes and more particularly on the advantageous effects of the anti-diabetic liqueurs and syrups / prepared by P. Garnier, chemist and distiller, Noyon (Oise), near Paris.

  • Garner, P., chemist and distiller
Date:
1875
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Credit: A treatise on the employment of glycerine in the treatment of saccharine diabetes and more particularly on the advantageous effects of the anti-diabetic liqueurs and syrups / prepared by P. Garnier, chemist and distiller, Noyon (Oise), near Paris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cutaneous diseases and the dressing; of wounds is due to English doctors. The remarkable works of Doctor Demarquay have particularly contri¬ buted to propagate in this country a perfect know¬ ledge of the numerous purposes to which this precious substance may be applied, in a surgical point of view. At the present day, glycerine is in constant use in the art of perfumery, and the materia medica also utilizes it to a great extent; but until very recently it was principally for outward applica¬ tion that glycerine was employed, as well as the numerous preparations of which it entered into the composition. The internal use of glycerine has often been prescribed in the case of certain affections of the digestive tube ; but it was rather as a sort of topic, or, on account of its sweet taste, as a medium of administering other medicinal substances, than as a therapeutic agent capable of undergoing, in our organism, certain useful transformations. Besides, another difficulty tended to check physicians and apothecaries in the use of glyce¬ rine as an interna] remedy ; and that was the