Word: stina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eminent scientists in Sweden" referred to by the Reynolds Co. were Erik Lundberg and Stina Thyselius-Lundberg, medical experimentalists of the Royal Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute in Stockholm. They wanted to know whether a diabetic might smoke, and, if so, how much. In the experiments on healthy and diabetic subjects, they used Camel cigarets. As a scientific "control" the Lundbergs also used German denicotinized cigar-cigarets called Bad Toltz. Nicotine either in smoke or as a straight drug, as the Lundbergs found and other investigators already knew, stimulated the adrenal glands. The stimulated adrenals exuded adrenaline which released sugar, which...