# Pancrinol

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Not to be confused with [Pacrinolol](/source/Pacrinolol).

**Pancrinol** was a French [organotherapy](/source/Organotherapy) (*opothérapie*) preparation marketed in the early 20th century by the laboratories of Dr. François Debat (Paris/Garches).[1][2] Contemporary promotional material presented it as a multi-organ extract tonic supplied in drinkable ampoules.[3]

## Background

In the interwar period, organotherapy products (*opothérapie*) became widely commercialized in [France](/source/France). Debat's laboratory is cited among firms that developed pluriglandular preparations such as Pancrinol alongside other animal extracts.[1][2]

Scholarly work on the periodical *Art et Médecine* has also described how the publication could blend [medicine](/source/Medicine) and [artistic](/source/Art) content with extensive [promotional material](/source/Pharmaceutical_advertising) for Debat products, including multi-page [advertorial](/source/Advertorial) content about Pancrinol.[4]

## Composition and marketing

Primary promotional sources described Pancrinol as a preparation made from [animal](/source/Animal) organ extracts (including [liver](/source/Liver), [spleen](/source/Spleen), [kidney](/source/Kidney) and [adrenal](/source/Adrenal_gland) tissue) and marketed it as a general [tonic](/source/Tonic_(medicine)), including for [anaemia](/source/Anaemia) and [tuberculosis](/source/Tuberculosis), reflecting the therapeutic claims typical of organotherapy advertising at the time.[3]

## Use in sport

Historical academic discussion of early "[stimulation](/source/Stimulation)" and [performance-oriented](/source/Performance-enhancing_drug) approaches in [sport](/source/Sport) has mentioned Pancrinol in connection with [athletes](/source/Athlete) and, in particular, [cyclists](/source/Cycling), in the context of pharmaceutical tonics used during the [interwar period](/source/Interwar_period).[5]

## See also

- [Organotherapy](/source/Organotherapy)

- [Patent medicine](/source/Patent_medicine)

- [Doping in sport](/source/Doping_in_sport)

## Bibliography

- Revue *Art et Médecine*, no. 1, Octobre 1930
- *Sport et dopage : la grande hypocrisie*, [François Bellocq](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bellocq) avec la collaboration de Serge Bressan, éditions du Félin, 1991

## References

1. Bonnemain, Bruno (2015). ["L'industrie pharmaceutique en France : le tournant décisif du XXe siècle"](https://www.persee.fr/doc/pharm_0035-2349_2015_num_102_388_23048). *Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie*. **102** (388). Société d'Histoire de la Pharmacie (Persée). Retrieved 23 February 2026.

1. ["Histoire de l'industrie pharmaceutique en France (PDF)"](https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/debatereuropa/article/download/_14_2/2906/13881). *Impactum (Universidade de Coimbra)*. Retrieved 23 February 2026.

1. ["Art et médecine (BIU Santé) – mention of Pancrinol properties in promotional text"](https://archive.org/stream/BIUSante_112580x1934_1935/BIUSante_112580x1934_1935_djvu.txt). *Internet Archive (BIU Santé source text)*. Retrieved 23 February 2026.

1. Callens, Anne-Charlotte (2023). ["Publicité déguisée ? À propos de La Revue du médecin et d'Art et Médecine"](https://journals.openedition.org/focales/2591). *Focales*. OpenEdition Journals. Retrieved 23 February 2026.

1. Viaud, B. (2009). [*Panser les deux mondes*](https://numerabilis.u-paris.fr/medica/ressources/pdf/histmed-asclepiades-pdf-viaud1.pdf) (Thesis (PDF)). Université / medica (BIU Santé). Retrieved 23 February 2026.

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