WHAT IS SWEETBREAD?
. A momentous question is opened by a correspondent of the Pharmaceutical Journal, who asks what butchers in various parts of the country supply as "sweetbreads?" Dictionaries, textbooks of anatomy, etc., give "Sweetbread —the pancreas," a gland . situated in the intestines. "A sweetbread was ordered for a friend of mine," writes the correspondent, "and the butcher was casually asked where it was situated. He said 'in the throat,' and the gland supplied was undoubtedly the thyroid. Subsequent questions brought to light the fact that in butcher's language there are three 'breads'—'Throat-bread,' 'heart-bread,' and 'gut-bread.' The first is evidently the thyroid, and the last the pancreas; whether the second in the thymus (a gland behind the breast bones) I cannot at present say. But I was informed 'that the gut-bread, i.e., the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is 'given to paupers or thrown away,' while the throat-bread is the luxury of the rich. When doctors order sweetbreads for invalids, do they intend the pancreas, and do they usually get the pancreas?" We should regard the practice of eating thyroid glands as exceedingly dangerous.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 299, 1 October 1910, Page 6
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184WHAT IS SWEETBREAD? King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 299, 1 October 1910, Page 6
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