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Sugars & Fats- Diabetes is due to improper functioning of the pancreas, a small spongy gland in the abdomen which pours certain digestive juices into the intestines. In addition, the pancreas secretes insulin, a hormone which goes directly into the blood and helps turn carbohydrates into energy. To compensate for lack of insulin production in diabetics, doctors for the past dozen years have given such patients hypodermic doses of drugstore insulin. In addition some doctors order them to take large amounts of fat with their meals, with the idea of resting an inefficient pancreas. Other doctors order large amounts of sugars...
Last week Dr. Cyril Mitchell MacBryde, 29, of St. Louis, threw a cogent idea into this muddle. Some diabetics, found he, are that way because the pancreas does not secrete enough insulin for the body's business. Such diabetics feel better if they get fats but no starches and sugars, thus resting their weary pancreases. Another type of diabetic suffers because, even if he produces a satisfactory amount of insulin, he has some inhibiting factor in his blood which prevents that hormone from acting on carbohydrates. That class of diabetics benefit, Dr. MacBryde found, when they eat great quantities...
...Connell's side of the scales of medical opinion, however, was the history of insulin, cure for diabetes, discovered by young Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and his student helper, Charles Herbert Best, at Toronto, 100 miles from Kingston, despite the impatience of their Uni-versity of Toronto superiors. Dr. Connell also had an assistant, Bertram J. Hols-grove, 31, whose initial job had been to wash test tubes and dishes. The pair regularly worked 14 to 16 hours daily. Dr. Connell abandoned his profitable eye-ear-nose-&-throat practice. Some apostolic members of Queen's University medical faculty...
...nourish those organs, they circulated growth-activating fluids which Dr. Lillian Eloise Baker of the Rockefeller Institute supplied them, containing blood serum, insulin, thyroxine, vitamin A, vitamin C, etc. The ''lungs'' of the apparatus refreshed the "blood" with a steady injection of air composed of 40% oxygen, 3% carbon dioxide, the balance nitrogen. The whole apparatus was kept at blood heat in an incubator, was rocked so that "blood" pulsed through the organ, almost exactly as in life...
...science of Medicine, in which the 10,000 are more immediately interested, they will see four special exhibits: Diabetes, supervised by Dr. Elliott Proctor Joslin of Boston and Dr. Frederick Grant Banting of Toronto, Nobel Prizeman, co-discoverer of insulin; Nutrition, supervised by Dr. Reginald Fitz of Boston; Prevention of Asphyxial Deaths, supervised by Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson (son) of Philadelphia; Vaccines & Serums (measles, rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, tetanus), supervised by Dr. Ralph Chester Williams of Washington. In addition there will be some 200 less extensive scientific exhibits illustrating Medicine's progress. Among the 200 will...