Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PANCREATIN
pancreatin
(noun) extract from the pancreas of animals that contains pancreatic enzymes; used to treat pancreatitis and other conditions involving insufficient pancreatic secretions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pancreatin (countable and uncountable, plural pancreatins)
A mixture of several digestive enzymes produced by the exocrine cells of the pancreas, composed of amylase, lipase and protease.
Source: Wiktionary
Pan"cre*a*tin, n. Etym: [See Pancreas.] (Physiol. Chem.)
Definition: One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.
Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice, by others it is applied to trypsin, and by still others to steapsin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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