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Word: insulin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Briant Decker of the Hygiene Department pronounced Harbury dead after all measures, including insulin injections, had been exhausted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Electrocuted in Physics Lab Experiment | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...biggest manhunts in U.S. history was begun this week by the American Diabetes Association: a search for 1,000,000 Americans who may have diabetes and don't know it. Prompt detection, diet and possibly insulin injections can stave off the severer phases of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Missing Million | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Slimmer Doses. With this mass of clinical material, Somogyi has come to a sweeping conclusion: among adult diabetics reporting for first treatment, there are less than 1% who cannot be treated so as to get along entirely without insulin.* Of the tiny fraction of more stubborn cases, nearly all can get by with 20 units of insulin a day-in the severest cases, no more than 30 units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Much Insulin? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Doctors are always on the alert, Somogyi points out, for "insulin shock"-severe symptoms of trembling, sweating, convulsions and even coma-which follow when overdoses of insulin reduce the sugar content of the blood drastically. But, he argues, there may actually be a serious blood-sugar deficiency before these dramatic symptoms occur. Then the body's glandular forces go to work, building up the blood sugar. In such circumstances they overdo the job: soon, there is again too much sugar in the blood, and many physicians are likely to order more insulin -thus completing the vicious circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Much Insulin? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Children, unlike adults, nearly always need insulin at first. But even they need less than 20 units a day, Somogyi holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Much Insulin? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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