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Elder Lister
SCOTT'S EMULSION Cod Liver Oil in the 19th Century was proclaimed the cure for many ailments.
One Problem: The oil's nauseating taste and smell.
Northern European fishing communities used cod-liver oil for generations to restore health and alleviate aches and pains.
In 1841, Edinburgh physician John Hughes Bennett published his "Treatise on the Oleum Aselli" or Cod Liver Oil, after spending some years in Germany observing its use for the treatment of rickets, rheumatism, gout, and srofula (a form of tuberclosis).
Lodovicus Josephus de Jongh of the Netherlands produced the first extensive chemical analysis of cod liver in 1843. His studies of the efficacy of the oil led him to conclude that the oil was the most therapeutic.
Scott's Emulsion's logo of "the man with the fish on his back" was famous even in Kenya in the 1960s and 70s.
The man with the big fish endures today, even as scientific and commercial interest in cod-liver oil has waned.
Do you remember this age-old medicinal oil aka "mafuta ya samaki"?
One Problem: The oil's nauseating taste and smell.
Northern European fishing communities used cod-liver oil for generations to restore health and alleviate aches and pains.
In 1841, Edinburgh physician John Hughes Bennett published his "Treatise on the Oleum Aselli" or Cod Liver Oil, after spending some years in Germany observing its use for the treatment of rickets, rheumatism, gout, and srofula (a form of tuberclosis).
Lodovicus Josephus de Jongh of the Netherlands produced the first extensive chemical analysis of cod liver in 1843. His studies of the efficacy of the oil led him to conclude that the oil was the most therapeutic.
Scott's Emulsion's logo of "the man with the fish on his back" was famous even in Kenya in the 1960s and 70s.
The man with the big fish endures today, even as scientific and commercial interest in cod-liver oil has waned.
Do you remember this age-old medicinal oil aka "mafuta ya samaki"?