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Results of early treatment by analysis were only tentative. But then came insulin and metrazol, and now, in the last two years, have come two new drugs, chlorpromazine and reserpine, which are making thousands of supposedly hopeless cases of schizophrenia accessible to analytic techniques...
...Cortisone. 5. Insulin...
...Most diabetics can eat a "self-selected, unweighed and unmeasured diet" to suit their own tastes and appetites, even if a little sugar does appear in the urine, said Dr. Edward Tolstoi of Cornell University Medical School. His idea: daily insulin will control the disease, and a severe diet may impair the patient's metabolic processes instead of improving them. ¶The mysterious poisons that appear in the bloodstream of severely burned patients and kill them several days after the original injury may not be so mysterious after all two Army medics told the Association of Military Surgeons. They...
Bill Z's Treatment. Each morning for 60 days, before breakfast, Bill was given an injection of insulin, which cuts down the blood sugar. Bill sweated profusely and became increasingly drowsy. The doctors gradually increased the insulin dosage, but were careful to stop short of the point where Bill would have lapsed into coma. At one point, Bill had a stormy outburst, then quieted down and showed his first grudging signs of cooperating with his psychiatrist...
Only after insulin treatments did young...