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...death rate for 1940 is three times as great (27 deaths per 100,000 population) as it was 40 years ago, and last week the Census Bureau reported it was still rising. Even more striking: the diabetes death rate is now 68% higher than in 1922, when insulin was discovered by Toronto's late Sir Frederick Banting and diabetics were presumably given a new lease on life...
Even so, Dr. Elliott Joslin of Harvard, probably the No. 1 U.S. diabetes expert, and Statistician Louis Dublin of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. warn that the rise in diabetic death is real. For insulin neither cures nor prevents diabetes. It has saved the lives of most diabetics under 45, prolonged the lives of those over 45. But insulin, observes Dublin, does not confer immortality. Sooner or later diabetes becomes complicated with other diseases like pneumonia, cancer, hardening of the arteries, etc. Diabetics are especially susceptible to gangrene (the tiniest infections are dangerous) since their blood vessels are often blocked with...
Since September 1940 sick, shelved President Ortiz had sat in his darkened mansion on the Calle Suipacha like a weakening but stubbornly weaving spider. He can make little; but he can prevent much. A 16-insulin-unit-per-day diabetic, with one eye permanently blind, the other four-fifths blacked out by diabetic cataract, he cannot control, but will not let go of, Argentine politics. The much he can prevent is a unanimous Government-bloc support to Acting President Ramon S. Castillo's policy of refusing belligerent collaboration with the Allies. Between President Ortiz and ex-President Agustin...
...versatile soup-fin shark furnishes more than vitamins. Insulin can be obtained from his pancreas, and the devitaminized oil from the liver makes a superior lubricant...
Mindful of the 1,000,000 diabetics in the U.S., Congress voted that all insulin be checked by the Pure Food & Drug Administration for strength and purity. Reason: Last week the patent of the University of Toronto (where insulin was discovered) expired, and the University lost its exclusive right to oversee the production of insulin, which it has done without profit for nearly 20 years...