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...insulin days, diabetics had two alternatives: eat well and die tomorrow, or live on a starvation diet and die by inches. Then one day in 1920 Frederick Banting, a young research M.D. at the University of Toronto, wrote in his notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks. . . . Remove residue and extract." Months later, Banting and Charles Best, a medical student assisting him, announced the isolation of insulin, the sugar-controlling hormone of the pancreas that gives diabetics-people whose bodies cannot use up their sugar intake-a new lease on life...
This week 1,000 members of the American Diabetes Association met at Toronto to strike a quarter-century balance sheet on insulin. (Among those present: Charles Best. Absent: Sir Frederick Banting, killed in a plane crash while on a secret wartime mission to England.) Diabeticians found the gains many, but the war against diabetes still far from...
...slow-acting insulin solutions, developed by Denmark's Dr. H. C. Hagedorn, allow diabetics to get along on less frequent injections (often only one a day). A.D.A. President Joseph Barach summed up: with insulin plus careful (but ample) diet, "the diabetic patient can now expect to live an almost normal life...
...though controllable, is still neither preventable nor curable, and the tendency to diabetes has been found to be hereditary. No sure way is known to halt deterioration of a diabetic's blood vessels, often eventual hardening of his arteries. Sometimes the smallest scratch may still mean gangrene. Though insulin has sent the younger (under 40) diabetic's life expectancy soaring, the overall death rate has actually increased during the insulin era: diabetes in 1920 caused 1.4% of all U.S. deaths, now causes 2.5%.* Most diabeticians still feel much as Banting did when he was invited...
...Charles Brown who, as an A.A.F. flight surgeon, supervised treatment of some 15,000 neurotic or psychotic Army flyers during the war. Now a civilian again, he has a staff of 31 resident and consulting psychiatrists, and an elaborate assembly of psychiatric paraphernalia. It includes equipment for electric and insulin shock treatments, a six-channel electroencephalograph which can measure electric impulses in six parts of the brain at once, a collection of brand-new drugs, a "psychodrama" theater, movies, soundproofed ceilings, a relaxing lounge. All told the clinic has 38 rooms, and 28 more are to be added...