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certain independent laboratory estimations of these preparations, made by a
fully competent chemist and physician in February, 1907, the tryptic power per
ampoule of these preparations was found to be 9.6 Roberts tryptic units. That
is to say, if preparations of such a strength of trypsin (9.6 units), and of
the very slight amylolytic power of 0.37 amylolytic units, were now used for
what Captain Lambelle and I regard as full normal doses, given daily or every
other day, the following would be the procedure: The full daily dose of 1,000
tryptic units would require the use of quite 100 ampoules of 9.6 units, and the
full dose of amylopsin could be obtained from more than 5,000 ampoules of the
strength of 0.37 unit, or more than five litres. I commend these figures to
certain transparently anonymous scribes, cancer researchers and ex-researchers,
in the English medical press.
It
has been pointed out that little or no evidences of the value of pancreatic
ferments in malignant disease have been published in France or Germany. With
our present knowledge of the requirements of the treatment, it would be
surprising to find any positive evidence in the medical publications of either
country. This lack of evidences is easily explicable. From Germany the total
number of applications for general directions or for preparations to date
(June, 1911) is two, all told, and doubtless most of the cases there treated
received the German preparations mentioned by Dr. P. T. Hald (Lancet, November
i6, 1907. pp. 1371-1375), and to his article the reader may be referred for
information as to their strength (vide Appendix M).
The
writer has not a single record of a request for injections as strong as 250 or
500 tryptic units from any French physician. Some French and Italian cases were