Word: insulin
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There is a doctor in Mexico City who gives insulin for practically anything-typhoid fever, syphilis, peritonitis, malaria, rheumatic fever. Dr. (and Lieut. Colonel) Donate Perez Garcia gives enough insulin to bring a patient to shock stage (perspiration, high pulse, coma, high blood acidity), then he injects a solution of glucose by vein to neutralize the insulin and bring the patient to. Mixed with the glucose is the drug ordinarily used to fight whatever disease he is treating. Dr. Perez Garcia believes that the insulin makes the bacteria succumb more easily to the drug...
...worked on the insulin treatment for 15 years, has used it for 11,000 treatments without fatal effect. Lately he spent seven weeks in the Lower California Military Zone, just over the border from the U.S. While in Lower California Dr. Perez Garcia cured General Juan Felipe Rico's wife of gall bladder trouble, gave about 155 treatments on 40 cases, including a woman paralyzed with tertiary syphilis. After four treatments she walked...
Last week Naval Hospital doctors were still scratching their chins about the insulin treatment. But they were impressed by Dr. Perez Garcia. They would like him to come back and do it all over again...
...Diabetics fall into two rough groups, the thin, muscular ones and the fat ones. The doctors found that 88% of the thin ones had an acute form of the disease and were hard to regulate on insulin. Of the fat ones, 88% had a mild form of diabetes, were easily adjusted on insulin...
...capsule is the result of two years of work by Surgeon Captain Charles Herbert Best, codiscoverer of insulin, and Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield, director of the Montreal Neurological Institute. Using a double-ended swinging machine designed to make even sailors seasick (TIME, July 19), they first tested 60 antiseasickness compounds, found two which had a slight effect separately, a better effect together. They added another compound that was their own idea, colored the mixture pink for the psychological effect, put the stuff up in capsules to be taken every eight hours until sea legs are attained...