FISH LIVER EXTRACT
VALUE IN ANAEMIA PROFESSOR'S RESEARCH LONDON, Aug-. 23 The Observer says that Professor L. S. P. Davidson, Regius Professor of medicine in the University of Aberdeen, working in conjunction with the Food Investigation Board, has established a plant, for extracting the protein-glycogen content from fish liver. The extract, it is claimed, has proved of the greatest value in treating pernicious anaemia. Hitherto fish liver has been too nauseating for patients to take. The extract costs only a fraction of the cost of animal liver, and is said to be equally, effective.
v Professor Davidson bas written several papers on pernicious anaemia, which have attracted the attention of the medical profession*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21277, 2 September 1932, Page 12
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113FISH LIVER EXTRACT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21277, 2 September 1932, Page 12
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