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...insulin selling in Washington, D.C. for $1.65 is priced at absolute wholesale. (Obviously, this sacrificed profit must be regained elsewhere; my guess is that it's in the prescription department...
...Washington, D.C., a tube of brand-name shaving cream sells for 23? v. the Baltimore "fair-trade" price of 39?. A diabetic pays $1.65 for insulin that costs $2.47 in Baltimore. And the fair-traders are working hard to wipe out even these few remaining islands of price competition...
...serious psychoses, shock (electric, insulin or metrazol) is sometimes effectively used to jolt depressed psychotics back to normal. Some psychiatrists admit that electric shock superficially resembles the medieval torture of the insane. (The beatings that the insane used to get, with chains, whips or rods, may actually have helped them, no matter what the intent.) The modern version is applied with more humanity, no more understanding of what makes it work. But patients who are so sick that they cannot talk at all may be able to talk after shock. Psychiatrists try to use such brief lucid periods to start...
...April, the brothers were haled before a federal court at Fort Wayne and charged with introducing mislabeled medicine into interstate commerce. Experts testified that there was no effective treatment for diabetes except insulin and diet, and that in any case the magic medicine (essentially vinegar and saltpeter) could do no possible good...
Sordid Quest. Among the witnesses against the brothers were six former patients, all from outside Indiana. An old man from Texas told how he had been instructed to discontinue insulin and eat sweets, if he liked. His toes began to turn black, and eventually his leg had to be amputated. A 14-year-old girl told the court that after she had used nine jugs of the Kaadt magic medicine, her eyes clouded over with cataracts...