Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
Slimmer Patients. The trouble with accepted theories about the cause and treatment of diabetes, says Somogyi, is that they pay too little attention to the role of the liver. Laboratory work has convinced him that in most diabetics the liver cannot metabolize fats fast enough. Physicians working with him in St. Louis reject the common idea that a patient's intake of starches must be restricted; instead, they make the patient cut down on fats, to ease the load on the liver and to get his weight down to the ideal norm for his age and height...
...treatment is chancy, too. About 100,000 people get the vaccine each year (as a precaution, in most cases). How many die from it-because of inflammation of the brain and spinal cord-no one knows; the U.S. Public Health Service believes that it kills almost as many as are killed by rabies. Doctors have a grave responsibility in deciding whether to use the vaccine...
Quartet. Skillful British treatment of four Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...