Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Mackenzie King, American-trained Liberal Premier of Canada, moved in the House of Commons at Ottawa an appropriation for an annuity of $7,500 for Dr. Frederick G. Banting, of the University of Toronto, discoverer of insulin (new remedy for diabetes). This stipend, which will enable the scientist to devote his life to medical research, gives evidence that a great democratic people can learn to recognize its true benefactors...
Among the distinguished medical men on the program were Friedrich Wenckebach, Viennese heart specialist; F. G. Banting, of insulin fame; E. V. McCollum, vitamin expert of Johns Hopkins; A. B. Luckhardt, Chicago physiologist; Walter Timme, neuroendocrinologist of New York; Fred H. Albee, surgeon. The business of the Association was transacted by the House of Delegates, which has representatives by population from the affiliated medical societies of each state. The A. M. A. is widely known as a model of efficient administration under the direction of Dr. George H. Simmons, whose headquarters are in Chicago. With 88,000 members-the majority...
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave his personal check for $150,000 to finance treatment of diabetes with insulin (TIME, April 21 and June 4). The purpose is to increase the number of free ward patients in American and Canadian hospitals who may be treated with insulin, and to teach practicing physicians the proper therapy of the extract...
...Flexner is an enthusiastic convert to the value of insulin, and declares there have been no failures in its beneficial effects. A committee of nine distinguished physicians, appointed by Dr. Banting, discoverer of the specific, and including Drs. Campbell and Fletcher, Toronto; Joslin and Fitz, Boston; Wilder, Rochester, Minn.; Geyelin, N. Y.; Woodyatt, Chicago; Allen and Sherrill,, Morristown, N. J., has just reported to the same effect, after nine months of rigorous clinical experiments. Insulin has in less than one year gained the complete approval of the medical profession. It is not, however, a permanent cure, and must be administered...
...great enigma of medical science. Many of the most dreaded diseases have been brought under control or greatly mitigated-smallpox with vaccine, typhoid fever with chlorination, diphtheria with antitoxin, tuberculosis with an all-round hygienic program, yellow fever with mosquito control, leprosy with chaulmoogra oil, diabetes with insulin. But cancer goes marching on with no apparent check. Indeed, the cancer death rate in the registration area of the United States has risen gradually but steadily until in 1921 it was 86 per 100,000 population, which would indicate that there are in the continental United States about 93,000 deaths...