Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Insulin shock, already used to snap schizophrenics and morphine addicts back to normal, may be a cure for bronchial asthma. In the current British Medical Journal, Dr. Z. Godlowski of the Polish Medical School in Edinburgh reports seven out of eight successes...
...vast U.S. black market in meat has cut deep into stocks of insulin, adrenaline, liver concentrates, pituitary extracts and other vital drugs. Obvious reason: the behind-the-barn slaughterers throw away the organs and glands normally sold by regular packers to drug makers. Sample results: 1) a Schering Corp. agent combed Armour, Swift, Cudahy and Wilson for 200 lbs. of sheep pituitary, found just 22 lbs.; 2) American Home Products Corp., needing 1,000 lbs. of pancreas monthly, has been able to buy only 700 lbs. all year. Shortages are just short of dangerous...
...doses of vitamin E, said Dr. Vogelsang, benefited four types of heart ailment (95% of the total): arteriosclerotic, hypertensive, rheumatic, old & new coronary heart disease. The vitamin helps a failing heart. It eliminates anginal pain. It is nontoxic. But, he warned, it must be taken continuously, like digitalis and insulin, and must not be taken simultaneously with other drugs...
...Erich Urbach described a few patients who evidently had diabetes, but whose symptoms were only skin deep. Both blood and urine were normal, but their skins broke out, or itched, and gave a high sugar test. The diagnostic clincher: their skins cleared up after diabetic treatment (insulin and diet...
...readers got a big ha-ha out of the cartoon in which the doctor tells the little man he seems to be allergic to himself. Now, it appears, the joke is no laughing matter. Many unfortunates actually are allergic to themselves: i.e., to the chemicals such as sex hormones, insulin, adrenalin produced by their own bodies...