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Professor James Bertram Collip, 39, biochemist, co-developer of insulin, more recently isolator of emmenin, one of the sex hormones beneficial in treating female disorders...
...originator of physiatric hospitals,* Dr. Frederick Madison Allen of Morristown, N. J., last week suggested (with reservations) that insulin be used to treat tuberculosis. Insulin, he observed, ''serves for more than mere carbohydrate [sugars, starches] utilization. It is the hormone of assimilation and anabolism. In this capacity it plays a well-recognized role in the resistance to infection, as is illustrated by the susceptibility of diabetic patients to infections and the restoration of resistance by insulin. Patients with uncontrolled diabetes particularly lack resistance to tuberculosis." Certain European investigators have tentatively treated tuberculosis with insulin...
...meeting. His 1932 successor, Professor Franz Boas, 73, Columbia anthropologist, was too ill to travel from Manhattan to New Orleans to assume office. In his absence the A. A. A. S. chose his successor for 1933?Dr. John Jacob Abel, 74, Johns Hopkins' great pharmacologist, the crystallizer of insulin (hormone which controls diabetes) and synthesizer of epinephrine (hormone which regulates blood pressure). He is the first pharmacologist president in the A. A. A. S.'s 83 years...
...elaborated Author Herbert George Wells's plan for carrying jobless workmen through periods of depression by mildly refrigerating them, hibernating them until society again needs them. The method: Cool the body to about 75° F. Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians in their prime might be preserved for a couple of generations...
Sugar for Diabetics. U. S. chemistry's greatest individual benefactor, Francis Patrick Garvan, has a progressively severe case of diabetes. Insulin is maintaining him in fragile health. Last week from Buffalo he received news which may help him and other diabetics. Dr. Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch of the Montreal General Hospital has traced the damages of diabetes to an enzyme in the blood. An enzyme is a digester. Dr. Rabinowitch's enzyme apparently destroys the insulin which the patient's pancreas manufactures itself or which the patient takes as medicine. Infections, like colds, stimulate the increase of this insulin-destroying enzyme...