Word: insulin
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...Toronto Dr. Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin,* was demonstrating the use of a drug to some medical students. He proposed to inoculate each member of the class with a slight dose of the drug; to prove it unharmful he gave himself a shot in the arm first. Immediately he was ill, had to retire for a rest of several hours. Investigation disclosed that the label on the bottle of the drug indicated a solution 100 times less powerful than...
...Wonder Team of 1921, apologies and plaudits.-ED. Inulin, Not Insulin...
...unaware of the difference between insulin and inulin could have prepared the story of burdock cookies, TIME, Nov. 3. You give your proofreaders too free a rein...
...proofreader who disregarded a specific warning about the similarity of these two words, a thoroughgoing reprimand. Insulin is a hormone which helps the body consume sugar. Inulin is a carbohydrate similar to starch.-ED. Nina Rosa Sirs...
Medicine has long used burdock roots to regulate body functions. Dr. Krantz who taught pharmacy at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland until he assumed his present position with Sharp & Dohme (1927), knew that the root contained insulin, a product much like starch. He experimented and found that diabetics did not transform this insulin into harmful sugar. Further, with burdock baked-goods, diabetics needed to take les insulin...