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Show Pineapple aa a lyspcpla ( art. According; to Signor Marcano. there is iu the common pine apple u ferment or principle, similar to pepsine, of such remarkable strength that the juice of a single pineapple will digest teu pounds of beef. If this prove true, a new and important agent in the treatment of dyspepsia has been discovered. dis-covered. 15ut even more Btriking was the further announcement in the same paper, written by a practical chemist, that the juice of pineapple is a very active solvent of the membrane formed in diphtheria. |