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...quarter-century, insulin has been the widely used, highly touted treatment for diabetes. This week, doctors were warned to go slow with it. Before the American Chemical Society in Atlantic City, Dr. Michael Somogyi charged that "innumerable" patients now getting large daily doses (50 to 150 units) "are actually victims of chronic insulin poisoning...
Owlish, Hungarian-born Dr. Somogyi is a biochemist in the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. But he is not an M.D., and so is not allowed to treat patients or see them professionally unless a cooperative doctor leads them into Somogyi's office for consultation. But, "looking over the shoulders of physicians," as he puts it, Somogyi has had a hand in treating 4,000 new cases of diabetes in the last 14 years. He has also been consulted in 300 to 400 other cases which had been previously "mismanaged" (by his standards) by other doctors...
Slimmer Doses. With this mass of clinical material, Somogyi has come to a sweeping conclusion: among adult diabetics reporting for first treatment, there are less than 1% who cannot be treated so as to get along entirely without insulin.* Of the tiny fraction of more stubborn cases, nearly all can get by with 20 units of insulin a day-in the severest cases, no more than 30 units...
Doctors are always on the alert, Somogyi points out, for "insulin shock"-severe symptoms of trembling, sweating, convulsions and even coma-which follow when overdoses of insulin reduce the sugar content of the blood drastically. But, he argues, there may actually be a serious blood-sugar deficiency before these dramatic symptoms occur. Then the body's glandular forces go to work, building up the blood sugar. In such circumstances they overdo the job: soon, there is again too much sugar in the blood, and many physicians are likely to order more insulin -thus completing the vicious circle...
...unusually thriving business. The journal in demand was the Royalist As Ujsag (The News). In it, Edmund Beniczky, ex-Minister of the Interior and present leader of the Legitimists in the National Assembly, charged Admiral Horthy, the Regent, with direct complicity in the mysterious murder of two Socialist editors, Somogyi and Basco, which occurred in February, 1920* That so serious a charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge of accusing Admiral Horthy. He was allegedly arrested for an old crime of slandering a politician, for which...