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Fair trade was having a tough time in four other states. In Louisiana, John Schwegmann Jr., a longtime foe of fair trade (TIME, June 4, 1951), was the first to start new trouble last fall, by selling insulin at $2.08 a vial v. the fair-traded price of $2.83. The drug firm of Eli Lilly won an injunction against Schwegmann, but the court was critical of fair-traded philosophy, holding that the Supreme Court would have to decide if the new 1952 law is constitutional. Schwegmann is selling items affected by the injunction at fair-trade prices, but everything else...
While he served to answer some questions, the unfortunate but invaluable patient raised some new ones. Insulin usually excites the vagus nerve, and this sets the stomach to working faster. Doctors have believed that this effect is transmitted through the more primitive brain centers. The farmhand had these primitive centers intact, so his reaction to an insulin injection should have been normal. Surprisingly, it was not. His stomach simply did not respond. Why? Dr. Doig and his colleagues suspect that insulin must work through higher brain centers after...
Learning to live with diabetes is tough -especially tough for children. The careful diet and the regular shots of insulin may become a painful, depressing routine for them. The well-meant sympathy of parents and friends may make diabetic children begin to think of themselves as permanent invalids...
Between games, Ham and Bill sipped orange juice to restore the sugar balance in their blood. Later they had lunch with the campers, and Talbert explained how he came to take up tennis in the first place: to burn up sugar and so cut down his insulin take. The kids could see for themselves that there was really nothing to prevent a diabetic from becoming a top-flight athlete, although one or two frankly wondered how Old Man Talbert could keep up the pace...
...Sanger points out that he has not synthesized insulin; he has only charted its structure. The importance of this work is that other chemists may now chart other proteins, find out whether certain groupings of amino acids in their molecules confer certain vital properties. Eventually, for instance, they may find that a small knot of amino acids makes a protein drug, like insulin, act as it does in the human body. Then perhaps a superior insulin substitute can be synthesized...