Word: insulin
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...first jet plane was designed by Nikolai Kibalchich, a terrorist, while he awaited execution, in 1881, for his part in the assassination of Czar Alexander II. It was Vyacheslav Manassein who discovered penicillin, 75 years ahead of Britain's Alexander Fleming, and Leonid Vasilievich Sobolev who discovered insulin, 21 years ahead of Canada's Frederick Banting...
...diabetic has no easy time of it. If he follows the orthodox treatment, he lives on a strict diet and takes daily injections of insulin. He must be on constant guard to avoid upsetting the delicate balance of a shored-up metabolism. The Kaadt Diabetic Clinic at South Whitley, Ind. offered an easier, more pleasant...
Presiding over the clinic were two venerable brothers, Drs. Charles and Peter Kaadt (now aged 74 and 76 respectively). Insulin, said the Brothers Kaadt, was oldfashioned. So were diabetic diets. The essential thing, they said, was to take three tablespoons a day of the Kaadts' own diabetes remedy. Then insulin could be reduced (or eliminated entirely), and the patient could eat anything his heart desired...
Only through research on dogs were the iron lung, the Strader splint, and insulin developed, continued the doctors. "Our main task now is to enlighten the public on the necessity for our painless animal operations," they stated...
...magnificent discoverers of insulin have actually so lengthened the diabetic's life that he is now eligible (in a well-regulated case) for life insurance...