Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pharmacology, a branch that he has taught at Johns Hopkins since 1893. His researches led to the discovery and synthetic production of Adrenalin, drug that has a startling therapeutic action on the heart muscles.* It can often cause stopped hearts to beat. Only last year he succeeded in preparing insulin in crystalline form. His crystals seem to be the hormone necessary to maintain normal sugar balance in the body and to prevent diabetes...
...Insulin must be injected into a vein; glukhorment is swallowed...
...Carl H. von Noorden of Germany had stated that he had been mistaken in glukhorment, his presumptuous substitute for insulin. Last summer he had announced from his famed metabolic clinic at Frank-furt-am-Main that the drug (which he prepared from pancreases) had benefited diabetics and had not sickened them as did insulin*(TIME...
...Diabetic patients who are gripped with a form of fear from an overdose of insulin may have their courage immediately restored by sucking a lollypop...
...discussed them. They are organic chemical compounds in the blood stream, in units of ultramicroscopic size. They actuate bodily organs much as nerves do, but more slowly, requiring to be transported bodily to the organs, like letters, whereas the nerves flash their stimuli like telegrams. The best known hormones: insulin, thyroxin, adrenalin, pituitrin...