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Died. Professor John James Rickard MacLeod, 58, onetime Associate Dean of the Medical School of the University of Toronto where, with Sir Frederick Banting, he discovered insulin (pancreas serum, for treating diabetes) which won them the 1923 Nobel Prize in medicine; in Aberdeen, Scotland, at whose University he had been Regius Professor of Physiology since...
...lecture on pernicious anemia at the Inter-State Postgraduate Medical Assembly. Dr. Minot, a diabetic, would not have been alive to discover the liver treatment for pernicious anemia and therefore to win a Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 5), if Nobel Laureate Frederick Grant Banting had not discovered the insulin treatment for diabetics. But Dr. Minot did not go to Philadelphia last week. Instead, he unexpectedly sailed for Sweden where late next month he will receive his share of Nobel Prize money...
...attack of diabetes in 1921 gave Dr. Minot the clue to liver as the stuff which would best regenerate the marrow's red-cell powers. Before Drs. Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best of the University of Toronto discovered insulin (1921), Dr. Minot kept himself alive by watching his diet. Dieting made him a food faddist. Faddism made him ask his pernicious anemia patients what they ate. Thus he discovered that most never touched meat or green vegetables. From Johns Hopkins' Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum, Dr. Minot learned that liver was rich in proteins and vitamins which...
...interrogate each other as to the properties of morphine-that is analogous to asking someone what letter follows "A" in the alphabet; fifthly, there is not a hospital to be found where even a mere interne doesn't know the difference between diabetic coma and insulin shock-no argument necessary, there are just about ten good signs to differentiate the law hastly, residents aren't ever that good handling. Yes, I am a medic...
Even further removed from possible practical application were the researches which famed Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, reported to the American Association for Cancer Research in Toronto last week. First, by proxy, he upset the theory that tissue grafts of Rous sarcoma, a transplantable animal tumor, continue to grow and spread in their new host. Instead, the transplanted tumor, he had found, disintegrates, starts a new tumor growing around it. Later Dr. Banting himself stood up to tell the cancermen a story of his four fruitless years of trying to make chickens immune to Rous sarcoma...