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...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...
...adult diabetic should get long-term treatment with either insulin or tolbutamide until he has reduced to a proper weight and it has been shown that diet alone will not control the diabetes...
...Tolbutamide is useless for patients who get diabetes before they are about 25. (The pancreas then appears to lose all power to secrete insulin and injections are necessary.) It is usually ineffective for those who get diabetes before...
...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...