Medicine:Pancrinol

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{{Multiple issues| Pancrinol was a medicine made from liver, spleen, kidney and adrenal extracts from slaughter animals.

It was manufactured by the laboratories of Dr. François Debat in Paris. This drug was presented, in drinkable ampoules, as a tonic against anemia, tuberculosis and all organic deficiencies.

Some cyclists took it.

Bibliography

  • Revue Art et Médecine, no. 1, Octobre 1930
  • Sport et dopage : la grande hypocrisie, François Bellocq avec la collaboration de Serge Bressan, éditions du Félin, 1991