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Last week from Canada issued more good news for diabetics. From the duodenal membranes of rabbits, dogs, hogs and cattle they had isolated a new hormone. Fed in powder form or injected into patients with diabetes, it reduced blood sugar to normal. Quietly Dean Archibald Bruce Macallum and Associate Professor of Physiology Norman B. Laughton of the University of Western Ontario Medical School made a preliminary report of their discovery to the Royal Society of England. As a diabetes medicine it may prove as effective as the insulin Toronto University's Drs. Banting & Best discovered...
...hormone of Drs. Macallum & Laughton has two advantages that insulin lacks. Not only may it be taken by mouth (insulin must be injected) but it cannot reduce the blood sugar below the normal (.08-.12%). Experiments both on animals and on human subjects confirmed this. But Drs. Macallum & Laughton, treading warily, think experiments on human patients in a few U. S. and Canadian hospitals should continue for four or five years before their new hormone may be introduced for general...
Willetts hurt his leg in the second half and was replaced by Sampson. Macallum put his knee out of joint and McDougal took his place. Washburn, who played goal throughout the game on account of Carpenter's illness, made several clever stops...
...summary: HARVARD. MCGILL. Pell, l.e. r.e., capt., G. Raphael Townsend, capt., l.c. r.c., H. Raphael Rumsey, r.c. l.c., Macallum, McDougal Newhall, r.e. l.e., Rowell Foster, c.p. c.p., Patrick Willetts, Sampson, p. p., Harrington Washburn, g. g., Waugh...
Score--McGill, 8; Harvard, 2. Goals--Patrick 3, Macallum 2, G. Raphael 2, Rowell; Rumsey 2. Referees--Dr. F. J. Goodridge '98, D. Blair. Goal umpires--J. S. Lovering '03, Dr. O. R. Mabee. Time-keepers--Trainer Donovan, A. C. Pratt of McGill. Time--20-minute halves...