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Holadin

an extract of the pancreas, used in medicine for the treatment of indigestion. Its properties are similar to those of the pancreatic juice, and it acts upon starch, protein and fat in such a manner as to render them easily digestible. It is generally administered in the form of capsules.

PAUL HEINRICH HOLBACH, DIETRICH, BARON VON, a French philosopher; born in Heidelsheim, in the Palatinate, in 1723. He inherited great wealth from his father, and entertained in his elegant house Rousseau, Diderot, and Buffon. He held materialistic and atheistic views, which are expounded in "Christianity Unveiled" (1767); "Spirit of the Clergy" (1767) ; "Sacerdotal Im- Clergy" (1767); "Sacerdotal Imposture" (1767); "The System of Nature" (1770); "The Social System" (1773). He died in 1789. or

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