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...Majoska's autopsy showed that there had been bleeding in Tutop's inflamed pancreas (the big gland which produces insulin and digestive juices). The same had been true in 25 of Majoska's autopsied cases. This disorder, or "acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis," is far from rare on the U.S. mainland. There it may strike at any hour, waking or sleeping, but usually pain gives a longer warning before a crisis develops, and more patients recover than...
Through such medical research the lives of thousands of diabetics have been saved and prolonged, since the effectiveness of insulin was discovered partly through experiments on dogs. Animal experimentation has saved human lives in other fields as well. Medical witnesses have repeatedly emphasized that general anesthesia is always employed in animal operations, and that most of the animals killed are strays which would die merely in the name of sanitation, rather than science. Furthermore, clerics from all major denominations have contended that no theological tenets oppose regulated vivisection...
...skill by work on dogs*: he could no more learn to open the human chest and remove a lung by reading a textbook than a Rubinstein could become a pianist without touching a keyboard. Millions of men & women now living would have died, or suffered immeasurably more, if insulin and penicillin had not been tested and retested on animals. With some drugs, each batch must be so tested before it can be sold...
Last summer the doctors found that, like Tennis Star Billy Talbert, Ham suffers from diabetes. They put him on insulin. This year, with the help of his insulin, Ham has been unstoppable among the juniors, a menace to his seniors. In the men's division of the Western tournament at Indianapolis, last July, he took Davis Cup Squadman Herb Flam, the ultimate winner, to match point in the quarter-finals before losing...
From the Middle Ages, when sticks were used to "beat the devil" out of mental patients, through the middle '30s, when electric and insulin shock therapy began, physical treatment of the insane relied on rude methods. Even now, shock "cures" may be worse than the disease: they often fail to cure, and sometimes the patient breaks a jaw or crushes his backbone in violent, convulsive spasms...