Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five men, 21 women) was dosed with chlorpromazine, which increased the sedative effect of barbiturates. By the end of the first week they were sleeping 20 to 22 hours a day. After getting solid food during this week, they were switched to semisolid. They got five units of insulin half an hour before each meal. With the onset of deep sleep, patients were wakened three times a day for meals and toileting. By the tenth day they were put on intensive electroshock treatment-usually one treatment daily, and often receiving four or five shocks in two to three minutes...
...heroine (Anna Kashfi) never finds herself in anything more exciting than the hero's alms. He sends her candy bars too. By the time the lights finally go up, the sugar count of this picture is so dangerously high that theater managers might be well advised to offer insulin shots in the lobby...
...trance and "goes away" into his leg, clearing up the gangrene as the amazed Olga watches. Egmont is soon keen "to forget all knowledge, live my organic life, flourish like a vegetable." But when Egmont is well on his way to becoming an amoeba, Olga gets panicky, has him insulin-and electro-shocked back to everyday life. Egmont rather sheepishly admits that maybe man had better develop the mind he has rather than try to lose it in matter. The author's further notion that mental progress is some kind of communal process is underlined by a lengthy subplot...
Neither drug is a substitute for insulin. Therefore, neither can be used for patients whose own insulin output is at or near the vanishing point-thus excluding everybody whose diabetes developed in early life. Also excluded are older patients who have severe ups and downs...
...help a vast number of diabetics: persons in middle or late life, usually those of a rather heavy or stocky build, whose disease is relatively mild and stable: 80% of such patients get prompt relief. If the drugs do not work, the patient can be put back on insulin immediately with little or no harm done. A rough-and-ready guide to indicate who may benefit from the new tablets if and when they become available for general prescription use: patients who normally need 40 units of insulin a day or less can get by with the drugs; those...