Word: macleod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flickering hope expounded by Dr. W. J. MacDonald, surgeon and physiological experimenter, of St. Catherine's, Ontario, before the Toronto Academy of Medicine. For seven months Dr. McDonald has neglected his practice to work in the laboratories of Toronto University under the guidance of Dr. J. J. R. Macleod, skilled inspirer of students, keen biological chemist, co-discoverer with Dr. F. G. Banting of insulin, hope of diabetics (TIME...
...MacDonald and Macleod have crushed beef livers (from healthy two-year-old animals), let serum rise from the maceration, filtered, titrated, decanted the serum, got a whitish grey fluid which they injected into the muscles of men suffering from high blood pressure...
...Little Angel is a young lady (Mildred Macleod) reared in such innocence that she discovers herself about to have a baby and can't imagine how she got that way. It seems she was at a ball and swooned, or something. Through the machinations of her flint-faced aunt (Clare Eames) the culprit is revealed and forced to marry her. Finally they fall in love...
...Significance. The book is a faery epic, astonishingly perfect. Its creatures will be recognized by Arthur Rackham and others who have traced the fairy folk. Its uncertain twilights are those that Yeats and Fiona Macleod and James Stephens have peered through. James Branch Cabell, who well knows the uses of buttered willow withes, will understand its magic. It must have been written "at an hour when hawkmoths first pass from bell to bell." Its meaning and its melody are "like the notes of a band of violins, all played by masters chosen from many ages, hidden on Midsummer...
...Banting and Prof. MacLeod, of the Univ. of Toronto−Insulin, the diabetes specific...