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That Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, discoverer of? insulin,* will receive the next award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine seems logical from a survey of the scientific achievements of the past year. It has been suggested from several sources, and from the Edinburgh International Congress of Physiology comes the story that Dr. Banting will be recommended to the Swedish Academy of Medicine, which acts as the jury for this prize on behalf of the Nobel Foundation, custodians of the fund established in 1896 by the will of Alfred B. Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite. The average value...
...eliminated. His work then attracted attention at the University of Toronto, and he was offered the use of the Connaught Laboratories there. He was assisted by C. H. Best, another young laboratory man, by Dr. J. B. Collip, of the University of Alberta, who has since discovered " gluckokinin," an insulin substitute derived from green vegetables (TIME, June 4), and he especially profited by the friendly oversight and advice of Dr. J. J. R. McLeod, professor of physiology, who has also been mentioned for the Nobel Prize. To Dr. Banting, however, must always be given the lion's share...
...Insulin, most talked of medical discovery of the century, now has a rival for treating diabetes-intarvin, a form of artificial fat that can be eaten and digested by diabetic patients. It was discovered by Dr. Max Kahn, associate in biological chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in collaboration with Dr. Ralph H. McKee, professor of chemical engineering at Columbia. "Intarvin," meaning "intermediate fat," is so named because one molecule of it contains 17 carbon atoms instead of the 16 or 18 usual in ordinary fats. This is the first successful commercial manufacture...
...preliminary experiments on animals, intarvin was tried on more than two dozen patients at Beth Israel Hospital, where Dr. Kahn is director of laboratories and attending physician for diseases of metabolism. It alleviated all the cases, some of which were in the final coma, and succeeded in some where insulin had failed. It is not expected to supplant insulin, however, for the two treatments proceed from different principles, insulin being injectel hypodermically to reduce the blood sugar, and intarvin being fed by mouth to prevent acidosis. The first pound of intarvin, made in Professor McKee's laboratory, cost...
...Cornell Medical School, and has spent four years in constant research on problems of metabolism. Physicians and chemists who are in a position to judge have accepted the scientific foundation of intarvin as sound, and there is reason to believe that it will soon take its place beside insulin as an approved treatment, though neither can yet be called complete...