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Following through on his clues, Pai was able to relax writing cramps in short order. His treatment was drastic psychotherapy-sedatives and insulin for anxious patients, hypnotic suggestion for the hysterical...
Cori's most important work throws light on the mysterious action of insulin. A shot of insulin allows a diabetic to use up sugar as a normal person does. But if insulin is added to sugar in a test tube, nothing happens. Why? Apparently the body furnishes other substances to effect the reaction. Dr. Cori has found some of these substances and has learned how they work. But he wants no one (not even the eager Sugar Research Foundation) to get the idea that he knows the whole story of sugar. If he did, he could answer a question...
...operation. Most of the functions of the stomach, pancreas and some other organs, Brunschwig points out, can be performed by substitutes: a section of intestine takes the place of the stomach, a thin slice of pancreas left in the body, or injections, can supply the body's insulin needs...
Diabetes was making U.S. Tennist Billy Talbert (see SPORT) a special sort of hero in Australia. Amazed that he had been taking daily insulin since he was ten, admiring Australians showered him with fan letters, flocked to watch him practice, wondered how he did it. He figured exercise was good for him (burned up the sugar). One time during a match he suffered an insulin reaction, popped a sweet into his mouth, went on playing...
...Philadelphia plants. All other big bakers either cut production or planned to close. For want of hides and leather, shoe production next month would drop to about one-third of the first-quarter level, with many shutdowns of shoe factories in the offing. For want of animal extracts, insulin and streptomycin supplies dwindled toward a critical...