Mellin's cod liver oil emulsion for coughs, colds and lung diseases / [Mellins Food Limited].

Date:
[1897?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Mellin's cod liver oil emulsion for coughs, colds and lung diseases / [Mellins Food Limited]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Digestion of Fats and Oils. is free from disagreeable flavour and has a pleasant odour, which makes it relisliable to the youngest babe as well as to the dainty convalescent as new milk. Fats and oils when digested by the healthy undergo emulsification—that is, they are broken up into a fine state of minute division. Those with weak digestive organs cannot digest plain cod liver oil, even when of the best quality, and those even with normal digestive organs can only obtain a small part of the total goodness of the oil; but in Mellin’s Cod Liver Oil Emulsion the digestion is largely performed outside the body, and Mellin’s Emulsion supplies to the body the cod liver oil in such a form that it is at once available for the nutrition of the body. The unpleasant eructations which indicate the difficulty of digestion of plain cod liver oil are no longer produced where Mellin’s Cod Liver Oil Emulsion is taken, and those with the weakest digestive organs are able o assimilate it, and derive benefit at once*