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Sufferers from diabetes mellitus turn the starches they eat into sugar to an abnormal degree. Their blood and urine is suffused with sugar.* Insulin controls this sugar production. Nonetheless such diabetics must always beware eating starchy foods...
Professor Frederick Grant Banting, 38, of the University of Toronto, proceeded from his home in Bedford Road, Toronto, a warmish morning last week, to behold a concrete compliment for his isolating insulin from the pancreas (sweetbread). His University, which had already created a chair of medical research for him, this morning was going to dedicate his splendidly-equipped Banting Medical Institute. In black silk robe gaudy with doctorate trimmings of four universities Professor Banting spent a long day attending ceremonies and meals, hearing speeches, encomiums. Pat was the praise of Berkeley George Andrew Lord Moynihan of Leeds, president...
...Persuaded a great teacher Dr. John James Rickard MacLeod, professor of physiology at the University of Toronto,? that he was on the verge of isolating pancreas hormone (insulin) which promised to be the best treatment (possibly the cure) for diabetes. He needed laboratory facilities and opportunities for clinical experiment. Professor MacLeod secured him a lectureship in pharmacology at the University of Toronto (pay $1,000 yearly). For pocket money Dr. Banting cut out tonsils...
...Insulin was announced as the specific treatment for diabetes...
Autointoxication. Dr. Charles Herbert Best, Toronto, co-discoverer of the insulin treatment for diabetes, announced his discovery of a new enzyme, claimed it was operative against histamine (said to be responsible for autointoxication...