Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing with her daughter, sometimes reversing their roles. When her husband became interested in a more mature woman, she quickly seized upon pregnancy as the only means of keeping her home and selfesteem. Last year she developed all the symptoms of pseudocyesis, including the same sharp decrease in the insulin required to control her diabetes that she had experienced in her real pregnancies...
Labor Pains. She readily consented to psychiatric treatment at a University of Oklahoma hospital. Physicians found her responsive, warm in temperament, of high average intelligence-and inexplicably able to subsist on only six insulin units per day against her normal daily dosage of 30 to 40. After only five weeks of treatment, she appeared fully prepared mentally to end her strange charade. The only question seemed to be how to do it without social embarrassment. Her solution: she returned to the hospital in ordinary clothes after a weekend pass, told fellow patients that she had aborted spontaneously while at home...
...clots that could be fatal if they reached the lungs. That was 20 years ago. Schulte's physician, Dr. Irving Wright, casting around for a drug to prevent clot formation (none had yet been proved effective in man), appealed to Nobel Prizewinner Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He wanted some of the heparin that University of Toronto laboratories had just begun to extract from beef lungs and liver. Dr. Best sent all he could spare...
Prison at Joliet, Ill. He had finished his breakfast of stewed fruit, hot cereal, a cinnamon roll and coffee, taken the first of his three daily insulin shots, worked for more than an hour at his job of clerk in the prison's master mechanic's office. Now a paunchy, balding diabetic of 53. he walked with Kidnaper Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy to the office of Warden Joseph Ragen. Said Ragen to Prisoner 9306-D : "Leopold, you and Touhy have been granted paroles." Breathed Nathan Leopold, the nation's most publicized convict: "Thank the Lord...
...patients whose diabetes has developed in later life, a good rule of thumb is that if they need more than 40 units of insulin daily tolbutamide will not do the job alone. In some cases it can be used alongside continued, but smaller, insulin injections. It is not suitable for patients whose disease fluctuates widely...