Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murder by Insulin. The damning sequence brought out in court: Barlow must have switched from ergometrine injections to insulin. These made his wife stuporous and complaisant. Then he gave her still more. She sweated abundantly and vomited. Comatose in the tub. she made no effort to save herself as she slid under the water, which soon filled her lungs...
Kenneth Barlow, a male nurse who often gave injections (including insulin) to patients in north of England hospitals, thought he had it figured out. Colleagues quoted him as saying: ''You could commit a. perfect murder with insulin. It cannot be traced." Last year Barlow, 38. had his chance. His second wife. Elizabeth, was pregnant, and neither wanted the baby. He started to give her injections of ergometrine to induce an abortion. On a May night. Elizabeth Barlow, 30, was found drowned in the bathtub...
...Laboratory, using 1,220 mice, 150 rats and 24 guinea pigs, to find out. After four puzzling days, a sharp-eyed pathologist found four injection marks in Mrs. Barlow's buttocks, two on each side. From each site he removed part of the underlying tissue for analysis, suspecting insulin. Barlow's boast had been half right: insulin is almost impossible to detect. But by extraordinarily ingenious methods described in the British Medical Journal, the drug sleuths found a way to prove that there had been 84 units of insulin in Mrs. Barlow's buttocks when she died...
...enzyme (organic catalyst) needed in the mold's process of making vitamin B-6 out of simpler nutrients. With the gene out of action, the process stopped, and the mold could not grow without help. It was like a human diabetic who needs an external source of the insulin that his body cannot make...
...symptoms of false pregnancy stayed on. Three weeks later, still in the hospital, she awoke with severe "labor pains." Not until the "labor pains" had continued for 24 hours did her "pregnancy" finally end, five months after it began. Next day her insulin need promptly rose. At last she gave away her maternity clothes and went home, where she is now living with her husband and child...