Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...developed a severe case of diabetes. Starvation diet, injections of insulin be fore each tiny installment of food with a dark future and the sure to follow detrimental effects from the use of insulin...
Without hope I decided to disregard the advice of doctors of the type of Dr. Cramp and went to Dr. Cunningham with the results that in two weeks I was off insulin and on an increased diet and today am a healthy man eating what I want and am no exception to the rule...
Diabetes. Charts of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and of the U. S. Department of the Interior showed that during 1923 and 1924 the death rates due to diabetes were 10% less than for 1922 when Drs. Banting and MacLeod discovered insulin and hailed it as a specific treatment, although no sure cure, for diabetes. Since 1924 the diabetes death rate has, increased rapidly. No doctor knows...
From Berlin last week came another* report of an alternative to insulin in the treatment of diabetes. Many diabetics cannot endure the injection of insulin into them. They sicken...
...were in congress at Berlin last week, Dr. Carl H. von Noorden sent his report from his clinic at Frankfurt-am-Main. He wrote that he had succeeded in making an extract of animal pancreases. This extract he had reduced to powder then compressed into tablets. Patients whom insulin sickened could swallow his tablets. He called this extract "horment...