Word: macleods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Persuaded a great teacher Dr. John James Rickard MacLeod, professor of physiology at the University of Toronto,? that he was on the verge of isolating pancreas hormone (insulin) which promised to be the best treatment (possibly the cure) for diabetes. He needed laboratory facilities and opportunities for clinical experiment. Professor MacLeod secured him a lectureship in pharmacology at the University of Toronto (pay $1,000 yearly). For pocket money Dr. Banting cut out tonsils...
...with the outside world by means of "sea messages." Letters placed in strong wooden boxes were thrown from the sheer cliffs. The prevailing westerly winds generally carried these to the Hebrides or the mainland of Scotland in one week. For hundreds of years St. Kilda has belonged to the MacLeods, who, living on the nearly as rigorous Isle of Skye, have seen nothing untoward in life on St. Kilda (Norman Magnus, present MacLeod of MacLeod, is hale and hearty at 91). The Marquess of Ailsa* bought St. Kilda last year, immediately decided to move the population to Ayrshire where...
...Professor Collip, what? Possibly the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He was one of the co-discoverers, with Professor Frederick Grant Banting of the University of Toronto of insulin, another hormone. And Professor Banting received with his colleague John James Rickard Macleod the 1923 Nobel Prize for Medicine...