Word: insulin
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...important to internal medicine as insulin, declared doctors at Northwestern University medical school last week, is the intestinal secretion just discovered by Professor Andrew Conway Ivy and his physiology research associates there. Ingested fats and meats, plus the gastric juices, make the intestines secrete a something which causes a normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas...
...pharmacology, a branch that he has taught at Johns Hopkins since 1893. His researches led to the discovery and synthetic production of Adrenalin, drug that has a startling therapeutic action on the heart muscles.* It can often cause stopped hearts to beat. Only last year he succeeded in preparing insulin in crystalline form. His crystals seem to be the hormone necessary to maintain normal sugar balance in the body and to prevent diabetes...
...Insulin must be injected into a vein; glukhorment is swallowed...
...Carl H. von Noorden of Germany had stated that he had been mistaken in glukhorment, his presumptuous substitute for insulin. Last summer he had announced from his famed metabolic clinic at Frank-furt-am-Main that the drug (which he prepared from pancreases) had benefited diabetics and had not sickened them as did insulin*(TIME...
...Diabetic patients who are gripped with a form of fear from an overdose of insulin may have their courage immediately restored by sucking a lollypop...