|LACTOPEPTINE DEMONSTRATED SUPERIORITY OF LACTOPEPTINE AS A DIGESTIVE AGENT. Certificate of Composition & Properties of Lactopeptine BY PROF. ATTFIELD, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C, F.C.S. Prof. of Practical Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. LONDOD, May 3, 1882.-Lactopeptine having been prescribed for some of my friends during the past five years-apparently with very satisfactory results-its formula, which is stated on the bottles, and its general characters, have become well known to me. But recently, the manufacturer of this article has asked me to witness its preparation on a large scale, to take samples of its ingredients from large bulks and examine them and also mix them myself, and to prepare Laetopeptine from ingredients made under my own direction, doing all this with the object of certifying that Lactopeptine is what its maker professes it to be, and that its ingredients are in quality the best that can be obtained. This I have done, and I now report that the almost inodorous and tasteless pulverulent substance termed Lactopeptine is a mixture of the three chief agents which enable ourselves and all animals to digest food. That is to say, Lactopeptine is a skillfully prepared combination of meat-converting, fat-converting, and starch-converting materials, acidified with those small proportions of acids that are always present in the healthy stomach; all being desseminated in an appropriate vehicle, namely powdered sugar of milk. The acids used at the factory-lactic and hydrochloric-are the best to be met with and are perfecly combined to form a permaneut preparation; the milk sugar is absolutely pure; the powder known as "diastase" or starch-digesting (bread-, potato-, and pastry-digesting) material, as well as the "pancreatin," or fat-digesting ingredients, are as good as any I can prepare; while the pepsin is much superior to that ordinarily used in medicine. Indeed, as regards this chief ingredient, pepsin, I have only met with one European or American specimen equal to that made and used by the manufacturer of Lactopeptine. A perfectly parallel series of experiments showed that any given weight of acidified pepsin, alone, at first acts somewhat more rapidly than Lactopeptine containing the same weight of the same pepsin. Sooner or later, however, the action of the Lactopeptine overtakes and outstrips that of pepsin alone, due, no doubt, to the meat-digesting as well as the fat-digesting power of the pancreatin contained in the Lactopeptine. My conclusion is that Lactopeptine is a most valuable digesting agent, and superior to pepsin alone. JOHN ATTFIELD. LACTOPEPTINE contains all the agents of digestion that act upon food, from mastication to its conversion into chyle, thus combining all the principles required to promote a Healthy Digestion. One of its chief features (and the one which has gained it a preference over all digestive preparations) is, that it precisely represents in composition the natural digestive juices of the stomach, pancreas.and salivary glands, and will therefore readily dissolve all foods necessary to the recuperation of the human organism. ......... 6. 46 FORMULA OF LACTO-PEPTINE. Sugar of Milk..... ......................40 ounces. | Veg. Pivalin or Diastase........... ..4 drachm. Pepsin......................................... 8 Lactic Acid.... ....5 fl. dr. Pancreatine.............. Hydrochloric Acid....................5 fl. dr. Lactopeptine is sold entirely by physicians' prescriptions, and its almost universal adoption by the profession is the strongest guarantee we can give that its therapeutic value has been most thoroughly established. The undersigned, having tested Lactopeptine, recommend it to the profession. ALFRED L. LOOMIS, M, D., Professor of Pathology and Practice of Medicine, University of the City of New York. SAMUEL R. PERCY, M D.. Professor of Materia Medica, New York Medical College. F. LE ROY SATTERLEE, M. D., Ph. D., Protessor Chemistry, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, N. Y. College of Dent.; Prof of Chemistry and Hygiene, Am. Vet. College. JAMES AITKIN MEIGS, M. D., Philadelphia, Prof. of the Institutes of Med. and Med. Juris., Jeff. Med. College: Phy. to Penn. Hos. W. W.DAWSON, M, D., Cincinnati, Prof. Prin. and Prac. Surg., Med. Col. of Ohio; Surgeon to Good Samaritan Hos. ALFRED F. A. KING, M.D., Washington, D. C., Prof Obstetrics, University of Vermont. D. W. YANDELL, M D., Prof. of the Science and Art of Surgery, and Clinical Surgery, University of Louisville, Ky. L. P. YANDELL, M. D., Prof. of Clin. Medicine, Diseases of Children, and Dermatology, University of Louisville Ky. ROBERT BATTEY, M. D., Rome, Ga., Emeritus Prof of Obstetrics, Atlanta Medical College, Ex. Pres. Med. Asso. of Georgia. CLAUDE H. MASTIN. M, D., LL. D., Mobile, Ala. Prof. H. C. BARTLETT, Ph. D. F C.S., London, England. Prof. JOHN ATTFIELD, Ph. D, F.R.S.. FI.C., F.C.S., London, England, Prof. of Prac Chem. to the Pharmaceutical Society o Great Britain. For further particulars concerning Lactopeptine, the atteniion of the profession is respectfully directed to our 32-page pamphlet, which will be sent on application. THE NEW YORK PHARMACAL ASSOCIATION, P. O. Box 1574. 10 & 12 College Place. 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They are standard In all parts of the country; they are labeled with Prot send ae.'s label, giving directions for use, and they are fast dieplacing the les perfect medicines in the practice of physicians of other schools. In a recent number of the Rolectie Medied Journa', Dr. zcudder says, eonice ming the ncces ity of having pure medicine: et to a pr seription pricflce because of the inferiority of the dres lispense.. as well as o count of the increased trouble and expense to My experience is that the interests of both physici and pita' nte best served by d qen, ing the necessary rena dies from the pocket-cars Prof. Scudder furthermore in lieves in pusehasing aedveines y reet and of best quality. These physicians who read this and agree with Prof. Mainten su obt in reliable 1.édicines of |