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...this statement are vastly more important to science than the actual splitting of blood pigment molecules. If the quantization of biological processes can be continued far enough, it will be possible to explain in exact mathematical terms-in terms of atomic energy levels and electronspins-what happens when insulin is secreted in the pancreas, when starch is broken down in the digestive system, when an ovum is penetrated and fertilized by a spermatozoon, many & many a complex biological phenomenon...
Sufferers from diabetes will now be able to take insulin pleasantly in cocktail form, according to the results of experiments by William T. Salter '21, Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry to the Cancer Commission...
Salter, in association with Thomas S. Sappington '37, and Miss Hildegarde Wilson, has found, by experimentation on mice, that insulin, thyroid extract, and anterior pituitary gland hormones contain protein substances. The stomach contains enzymes which break up and digest proteins; thus insulin or any other protein type of hormone, if swallowed as food or drink, is treated as protein material...
...Culler also pointed out last week that diabetic humans find they can hear better after a dose of insulin has reduced their blood-sugar level. He also declared that normal people hear less well after their sugar level has been raised by "a good square meal." This would indicate that, for best reception, speeches should be made before banquets instead of afterward...
...XRay Effect." Several clinicians had noticed that when human heads were exposed to X-rays, a temporary improvement in hearing frequently occurred. Dr. Culler confirmed and explained this phenomenon. Studying X-rayed dogs, he found that the irradiation weakened the pituitary control of the pancreas, which thereupon released more insulin in the blood. The insulin excess lowered the blood's sugar content, which in turn lowered the density and viscosity of the fluids in the hearing mechanism of the inner ear. The ear thereby became more susceptible to sound vibrations...