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...Professor Gilbert B. Forbes in GP magazine of the American Academy of General Practice. His observations about young diabetes victims: 1) underweight, not obesity, plays a major role in diabetes among the young; 2) eating too many sweets does not lead to diabetes; 3) almost all juvenile diabetics need insulin, and it is best to begin treatment in a hospital; 4) to avoid making a child bitter, some control should be sacrificed, e.g., diet breaks on birthdays...
...time hospital and need help in readjusting to the world at large. For patients who might find the transition from the day hospital to life "on the outside" too abrupt, the Allan Institute has just added a "three-quarter-way house": an evening treatment center where electrotherapy and mild insulin treatments are given, and blood samples taken for various laboratory tests. The evening hours make it possible for a worker to attend without taking time off from the job, or for a mother to leave the children with her husband instead of a babysitter...
...women who had been continuously manic for a year or more quieted down, were soon content to lie down on their beds, and seemed to spend much of the time sleeping. But this was no drugged, disordered sleep such as follows heavy dosing with barbiturates, scopolamine or insulin. A gentle shake of the shoulder would bring the patient wide awake at once, able to give sense-making answers. After a few days the somnolence wore off, but the patients remained calm. They willingly took pills instead of requiring injections, fed themselves, ate heartily and slept well. Not all patients responded...
Some orthodox psychiatrists have performed thousands of lobotomies, in which a knife is slashed through the cortex, the most essentially human part of the brain. Some do not hesitate to give patients scores or even hundreds of electric or insulin-shock treatments, or to put them in an insulin coma. Alongside these procedures, the red-brick school points out, the use of chlorpromazine and reserpine is gentle. It can make the patient readily accessible if the overworked psychiatrist has a few minutes to practice psychotherapy on him. If psychotherapy can prove its worth even in psychoses, these drugs give...
...After exposing 42 common drugs to blast and radiation during the 1953 Nevada A-bomb tests, the Food & Drug Administration released its findings: all the drugs were unharmed except two-insulin suffered a 10% loss of potency. Vitamin B a loss of 50%. Added the FDA: any drug found in an undamaged container, 1,000 yards or more from ground zero, can be considered safe for immediate...