Quackery and cookery: Justus von Liebig's extract of meat and the theory of nutrition in the Victorian age

The primary historical study of Liebig's Extract of Meat Company and its intersection with Victorian nutritional science. Finlay documents the founding of LEMCO in 1865, Liebig's financial arrangements as scientific director, the company's marketing strategy through physicians and pharmacists, the claim that one pound of extract represented the nutritive value of 34 pounds of beef, and the mounting critical response culminating in Kemmerich's 1868 dog-feeding experiment. Documents that LEMCO stopped advertising in medical journals after 1874 and repositioned the product as a domestic flavouring and stimulant. The authoritative scholarly treatment of the case.