Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of hormones, boldly x-rayed the brains and loins of suitable patients in Chicago's Illinois Central Hospital. The treatment seemed to clean up their diabetes, to lower their blood pressure, and gave Dr. Hutton cause to declare: "If it does no better than control diabetes, as insulin does, the patient would still be better off because he would be free of the inconvenience of constant hypodermic medication...
...into the emergency ward. You may smile when, in the second scene, a doctor diligently studies a patient's chart and then asks the attendant nurse for the patient's pulse rate. Still another surprise is in store. For just as the doctor is about to inject insulin to revive the patient from post-operative shock, in bursts Interne Ferguson to snatch the hypodermic out of his superior's hand, administer his own entirely different treatment...
Three or four years later there were fewer deaths from diabetes than in 1922 when Toronto's Banting announced insulin. But in recent years the death rate is higher. Explanation (according to Metropolitan Life's famed Dr. Dublin): most of the increased deaths are in the higher age brackets, insulin having lengthened the life of diabetics...
...July 3 issue. Medicine-"Diabetics no longer die of Diabetes because Canadian Investigators isolated insulin from the pancreas." This is far from true, as a glance at any mortality table will show! While Banting and his co-workers deserve the highest credit for their discovery, unfortunately people do still die of Diabetes: in fact (you can check me if I err, when you look up the yearly mortality rates), there were more deaths three and four years after the discovery of insulin, than in the preceding years...
...here I must again indict you, this increased death rate from Diabetes has been attributed by most authorities to Diabetics going on an Insulin spree, due to the erroneous impression that by taking insulin, dietary restrictions could be disregarded. This is wrong, and I think that your article fosters the idea. On the contrary, a Diabetic taking insulin must be more careful of his diet than when not taking it! Insulin does not supplant, but only aids diet in the control of Diabetes...