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Newshawks (whom he hated) and col leagues last week recalled some episodes of Sir Frederick's turbulent career. He was a stubborn man of strong feelings, sudden temper, trenchant speech. After insulin was discovered in 1921, Biochemist James Bertram Collip was called in to polish up the glandular extraction technique. The stuff began to be called "Collip's extract." Banting leaped on Collip in the university halls, threw him down, banged his head on the floor, bellowed: "So, you will call this 'Collip's extract,' will...
...shrivel up, die. That gave him the great idea-how to get the digestive juices out of the way, to get at the spark-plug chemical. He wrote three sentences in a notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks for degeneration. Remove residue and extract." Then he went to bed, but probably not to sleep...
...working hypothesis, angiotonin was marked as the chemical cause of high pressure. Further experiments showed that normal kidneys probably manufacture an "inhibitor" substance, which destroys or neutralizes surplus angiotonin, keeps the pressure within normal bounds. Two research teams, including Dr. Page's in Indianapolis, recovered from kidney extract inhibitors which lowered the pressure of animals 50 to 100 points...
...three other firms for conspiring with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie to hold down U. S. production through patent control (TIME, Feb. 10). Dow produced the nation's 6,500 tons last year from Michigan brine wells, is now building a plant at Freeport, Tex., to extract another 6,500 tons a year from the Gulf's salt water. When the Freeport and Kaiser-Reilly plants are going full blast, U. S. production will jump to at least 25,000 tons a year, four times the U. S.'s 1940 output and about equal to Germany...
...Dickens' treatment: thyroid extract, which jolts the patient into action for a short time. But his patient is getting sleepier every year...