Cod-Liver Oil and Chemistry (Classic Reprint)

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When our firm was established by the late peter moller he laid down this principle - that those who use the commodity we prepare have a right to know all that we know concerning it. Since then a long period has elapsed, but that guiding principle of our founder has been constantly borne in mind and in order to carry it out we have from time to time published monographs on various matters relating to cod-liver Oil.

These papers, however, do not seem to have attracted the attention that we venture to think they deserved, and in regard to the subject there still seems to be some amount Of misconception, even in the best and latest text-books.

Hitherto our publications have been in a language that is perhaps not very accessible to English readers and as that may explain why the subject is not better known we have determined to issue this volume written in English, and dealing with all matters connected with cod-liver Oil, and especially those likely to be of interest to members of the medical profession.

That, however, is but the reason in part. Our former papers have been published, not at indifferent times, but at the times when we happened to have something new to tell. This we now have in the results of the investigations lately undertaken by Mr. Heyerdahl. It is not too much to say that his discoveries make by far the most im portant contribution to our knowledge Of cod-liver Oil. In fact, they throw the first and only true light on that mystery, the real nature Of the Oil; and to make this known is our second reason for issuing the present work.

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