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...diabetes," said Dr. George T. Harding, father of the late President, to a pressman. The old man thinly raised his voice, expressed his scorn for the insulin treatment favored by the American Medical Association. Said...
...muster much enthusiasm for a remedy that merely alleviates a disease without getting down to the root causes of it. ... Some of the greatest specialists in the country have offered to come to Marion and treat me for this disease; but, when I found they had the insulin bug, I would have nothing to do with them...
...Vienna, Prof. Friedrich Silberstein read a paper before the Vienna Medical Association, told how he had treated innumerable cancer-ridden mice with large doses of insulin, how of those mice which had been operated on for cancer, 50% showed no return of the malady when they had been treated with insulin, how insulin had checked the swelling of the carcinoma in mice too weak, too miserable, to withstand operation. He advised his colleagues to give insulin to human patients in the largest possible doses when operation for cancer was impossible. His report caused "a profound sensation...
Intarvin, an artificial fat, has been fed to diabetic patients without the ill results attendant upon eating ordinary fats, allowing them to gain in weight and strength. It supplements and sometimes hastens the curative action of insulin. It is harmless even if taken continuously in quantity.-Dr. Max Kalin (the inventor), Dr. William J. Gies, Columbia University; Dr. Hattic L. Heft...
...Insulin. A new means of administering insulin (diabetes cure), through the mouth instead of hypodermically has been evolved. Tablets with a coating that does not dissolve until it enters the intestines preserve the insulin from destruction by the juices of-the stomach.-Dr. John R. Murlin, University of Rochester...