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From Berlin last week came another* report of an alternative to insulin in the treatment of diabetes. Many diabetics cannot endure the injection of insulin into them. They sicken...
Diabetes. Dr. Richard I. Wagner of Morristown (N. J.) Psychiatric Institute, extracted from huckleberries "myrtillin," substance of unknown chemical composition. Fed to some diabetic dogs by Dr. Frederick M. Allen of Morristown, "myrtillin" seemed to benefit. It may develop as an alternative to insulin as diabetic treatment...
...real merits of this discovery. Should confirmation be made that Dr. Small has isolated and identified the specific cause of this disease and has prepared a serum for its cure, we shall then have achieved a success rivaling no less a discovery than that of insulin for the treatment of diabetes...
Successful Insulin. Insulin (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923) has brought moribund diabetics out of coma, has prolonged the lives of sufferers several years. Complete cure of diabetes is not yet positive. Moderate doses of insulin are not permanently injurious. Yet a certain death definitely due to insulin over-dosage has frightened many persons. Quacks and some commercial biological chemists have misled slow-wits by exploiting substitutes. Some physicians have reported poor results from the true product because they had not learned its proper use. (Reported by Dr. John Ralston Williams of Rochester, N. Y., after four years' verification...
Last week in Manhattan the Presbyterian Hospital staff announced some preliminary findings instructive to parents who think all diabetic children waste away. The report, based on observations of 34 young diabetics, showed that all except four were overweight or overgrown during the early stages of the disease. Proper insulin treatment and intelligent dieting throughout life are essential for them. Without insulin at least, affected children under ten rarely live more than two years. Persons between 10 and 20 years endure two to four years; between 20 and 30, four to six years; after 30, 5 to 15 years...