Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Ontario, before the Toronto Academy of Medicine. For seven months Dr. McDonald has neglected his practice to work in the laboratories of Toronto University under the guidance of Dr. J. J. R. Macleod, skilled inspirer of students, keen biological chemist, co-discoverer with Dr. F. G. Banting of insulin, hope of diabetics (TIME...
...When a Koch discovers the tubercle bacillus, a Banting discovers insulin for the relief of diabetes, or a von Behring an antitoxin for the cure of diphtheria, or a Park demonstrates the value of the antitoxin for the prevention of diphtheria, the world draws a long breath as if saying to itself, 'Now we are rid of that terror which has haunted the human race for centuries.' It then straightway forgets and goes on its way comfortably, assuming that, of course, the great discovery or invention is being carried into effect...
...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...
...muster much enthusiasm for a remedy that merely alleviates a disease without getting down to the root causes of it. ... Some of the greatest specialists in the country have offered to come to Marion and treat me for this disease; but, when I found they had the insulin bug, I would have nothing to do with them...