Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...skill by work on dogs*: he could no more learn to open the human chest and remove a lung by reading a textbook than a Rubinstein could become a pianist without touching a keyboard. Millions of men & women now living would have died, or suffered immeasurably more, if insulin and penicillin had not been tested and retested on animals. With some drugs, each batch must be so tested before it can be sold...
Last summer the doctors found that, like Tennis Star Billy Talbert, Ham suffers from diabetes. They put him on insulin. This year, with the help of his insulin, Ham has been unstoppable among the juniors, a menace to his seniors. In the men's division of the Western tournament at Indianapolis, last July, he took Davis Cup Squadman Herb Flam, the ultimate winner, to match point in the quarter-finals before losing...
From the Middle Ages, when sticks were used to "beat the devil" out of mental patients, through the middle '30s, when electric and insulin shock therapy began, physical treatment of the insane relied on rude methods. Even now, shock "cures" may be worse than the disease: they often fail to cure, and sometimes the patient breaks a jaw or crushes his backbone in violent, convulsive spasms...
...ironic that such a famed doctor as Minot should have been a life-long sufferer from diabetes, the disease he finally died of. He contracted the illness soon after his graduation from Harvard Medical School in 1912 and became one of the first Boston patients to receive regular insulin treatments...