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Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are. The "throat-bread" is undoubtedly the thyroid, and the "gut-bread" the pancreas. […] But I was informed that the gut-bread, i.e., the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is "given to paupers or thrown away."
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(3) The throat bread (thyroid gland) (4) The heart bread (thymus gland) Biggr } These form a "set" of sweetbreads. (5) The gut bread (pancreas)
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The feeding of raw pancreas has been advocated and claimed to be effective but the difficulty of ensuring a regular supply of fresh gutbreads, quite apart from doubts as to the effect of gastric digestion, makes this treatment of dubious value.
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Gerrard discloses that the pancreas is sometimes substituted for sweetbread and is referred to as gutbread in English slaughter houses.
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