Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Banting got it. The 1923 Nobel medicine award went to the 31-year-old discoverer of insulin, as forecast in TIME (Aug. 27). It will be equally shared by his superior in the physiology department of the University of Toronto, Dr. J. J. R. MacLeod, whose advice and cooperation speeded Dr. Banting's triumph. Dr. Banting announced that he would share his part of the award with Dr. C. F. Best, 23 years old, a fellow-graduate at Toronto, and co-worker in the insulin researches...
...Forbes Godfrey, Ontario Minister of Health, revealed at a dinner of medical men that Dr. F. G. Banting, discoverer of insulin (TiME, Aug. 27), would shortly announce a new discovery " of even greater importance than the world-famed diabetes treatment." Dr. V. E. Henderson, of the pharmacological department of the University of Toronto Medical School, confirmed this with the words " Dr. Banting had something so good we couldn't believe it." Dr. Banting himself refused to talk. Until the new experiments have been repeated several times and the results thoroughly verified, the public will probably have to remain...
...something better than insulin...
Despite the warnings that have been given by Dr. Banting, discoverer of insulin, and numerous other physicians using it, many people, misled by newspaper publicity, believe they now bear charmed lives if only they can secure insulin. Diabetics write Mr. McCann letters asking : "Do you think it safe to eat anything?" "How much candy may I now allow myself daily?" "Where can I buy insulin to take with my meals...
...McCann answers categorically: " Full reliance cannot be placed on insulin to protect one against the ravages of self-indulgence. Curbed cravings cannot now be satisfied with impunity. Insulin cannot be purchased to be taken with one's meals." He does not impugn the therapeutic value of insulin, but emphasizes the fact that it is a powerful extract which should be administered only by a physician familiar with its use, and that a constant surplus of sweets cannot be neutralized indefinitely even by regular dosage of insulin...