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...Research Corporation of America, making money from a process of electrical precipitation, but contributing all its earnings to the advancement of science, announced that John J. Abel has done more than any other scientist to promote human enjoyment of life; awarded...
...Abel, Professor of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins, has made scores of contributions to the science of health. He has treated such subjects as: ductless glands, regulation of blood pressure, pituitary principles, insulin...
Before the institution of the Court was devised even individuals settled their disputes as Cain and Abel settled theirs. When a dispute becomes acute and can not be settled diplomatically, there remain just two ways of settling it. One is to fight it out, in which case the stronger man wins irrespective of the justice of his case. The other is to referee it, that is, to put it into the hands of a disinterested third party who is not so excited or prejudiced and who is more likely to make a just decision. That is the fundamental idea...
...political situation just outside Eden was very simple. There were only two favorite sons, Cain and Abel, and one got the other's scalp. It has never been so simple in Indiana. There have been from primeval times many great sons?always more than there was room for in one little state?and one took another's scalp only to have his own taken in turn, and that is part of the reason why the white settlers got the state so readily. But the coming of the whites did not change conditions much...
...John J. Abel, of Johns Hopkins University, published last week an article, Researches on Insulin in a technical journal. He told of purifying and concentrating insulin so that it is several times as effective as the common product, held out hope of obtaining perfectly pure insulin, of learning its chemical constituents (he is inclined to believe it is a sulphur compound) with the possibility of eventually making it synthetically and also ot discovering a contributing cause of diabetes mellitus in the absence of certain sulphur compounds from the diet...