AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT
Authors: MILTON B. HANDELSMAN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1938)

Article1 February 1938AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTTHE DIGESTIVE AND ABSORPTIVE FUNCTION OF THE EXTERNAL SECRETION OF THE PANCREAS*MILTON B. HANDELSMAN, M.D.MILTON B. HANDELSMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-11-8-1479 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThere are some types of investigations which require many years of work before any considerable progress is made; studies of the digestive function of the external secretion of the pancreas are of such a nature. The difficulty in preparing suitable experimental conditions in animals, the care needed in controlling the many variable factors of each experiment, and the lengthy chemical analyses, require in some instances as long as a year to study a single case. J. H. 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