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...Insulin v. Diabetes...
Another hormone discovered by Dr. Evans is diabetogenic. Contrary to insulin, this pituitary factor causes the body to accumulate sugar...
...pancreas, an adjunct to the bowels, produces insulin whose dramatic influence on diabetes matches the dramatic effect of iodine on goitre. When the pancreas is inactive or diseased it produces too little insulin for the system. Hence diabetes. Too active a pancreas produces too much insulin, causes an opposite disease called hyperinsulinism. or ''hungry disease." Dr. Scale Harris of Birmingham, who has studied this phenomenon for ten years, described the symptoms as excessive hunger accompanied by weakness, nervousness, tremors, sweating and mental lapses. Many a person considered to be an epileptic actually suffers only from "hunger disease," said...
...newly discovered function of the adrenals which Columbia University's Professor Raymund Lull Zwemer recognizes, is the regulation of salt and water in the body. This power resembles the power of insulin on sugar, the parathyroid on calcium, the thyroid on iodine. Common salt benefits cases of Addison's disease, a disease caused by defective adrenals...
...digest, and to regulate their bowels, and perhaps to be cured of their 'conscious abdomens.' Then again the patient in the early diabetic stage where not only himself but his wife needs instruction in food calories and cooking, and it may be in the administration of insulin. All such and many mere need for a space a designed environment; they require education but under the conditions of their working life...