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Hope Springs. . . . Young, white-haired Dr. Thomas A. C. Rennie of the Psychiatric Clinic at New York Hospital listed medicine's weapons against alcoholism: psychiatry, vitamins, sedatives, high carbohydrate diet and, to help bring a man out of delirium tremens, glucose and insulin. He told about the encouraging results of the conditioned reflex treatment, which makes a man nauseated at the sight or smell of alcohol: 76% of one series of patients were improved...
...mercy around the world. In the last three years the Red Cross has distributed $63,000,000 worth of supplies in war-torn countries. To Great Britain have gone: hospital equipment, medical and surgical supplies, clothing for civilians bombed out of their homes; to Russia: bandages, anti-gangrene serum, insulin; to China: quinine, vitamin tablets, cracked wheat; to France: clothing, flour, chocolate...
...that a normal mind is a more or less harmonious mixture of intellect and emotion. But sometimes this integration takes on a fixed, unhealthy pattern: foresight becomes anxiety, anxiety becomes fear, and the psychotic victim may head for lunacy unless treated by psychoanalysis, shock therapy (e.g., with electricity or insulin) or-as a last resort -psychosurgery...
...Pancreas glands are being gathered from the slaughterhouses of the Baltic States and the Ukraine to make up a shortage of insulin for diabetics...
Diabetes also increases as the standard of living rises. Labor-saving machinery relieves more & more people of heavy food-burning physical work, and food itself becomes more abundant. Large amounts of food (especially sugar) burden the pancreas. This organ secretes insulin to burn up and store carbohydrates, which have been digested to sugars. If an individual inherits a tendency toward diabetes, his hard-pressed pancreas may slow down or stop producing insulin. Out of every 20 diabetics more than 40 years old, 17 were overweight before the disease appeared...