Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-28 | Page 8 | Diabetes

j Diabetes I By DR FRANK CRANE The old U textbook used to say that diabetes wa was wa's an Incurable disease it was so listed In the EncyclopedIa podia and when people got this trouble they threw up theIr hands and gave In it It Is an insidIous malady and marks all kI kinds ds of people for its own is not not a cure for diabetes as Insulin merely takes the sugar from the blood The body keeps on making sugar and the blood fills up again wIth it Insulin therefore is only a temporary relief of the niost conspicuous symptom of dIabetes The cure for diabetes Is much advertised by quacks There is a herb from Mexico 1 that has been exploited as a makers of electrIc belts say they can cure it and a number of other cures are on the mar mar- ket The fhe trouble Is that none nono of them have been able to stand the scrutiny of the cold eyes of medical science So far a a. diet more or less strict Is the only control this trouble It is not so fatal to older people as as' as to younger Its cause seems to be In deficient metabolism that is somethIng wrong with the apparatus apparatus apparatus' that transforms trans trans- transforms forms our food Into human tissues Recently a m mysterious substance called made by extracting the juices from huckleberry leaves vas announced announcE by Frederick M. M Allen of MorrIstown Mor- Mor New v Jersey before a meeting of the Federation Fedoration Fed Fed- oration of American societies for exp bIology as a probable cure for the tr trouble uble lIe says cautiously It Is a a. a mysterious rious substance that Is obtaIned from the leaves of huckleberrIes What It is we do not know There There is a a. possIbility that it Is n a vitamin Our experiments so far show that in selected diabetes cases It is ef effective This is a gleam of hope for Dr Allen Is about tIle tle most respectable expert on the treatment of diabetes that there Is in iii the country He warns against too much hopefulness hut but tells f experiments carrIed out mucH SUccess If he succeeds In producing a cure that will stand till tiit test of the medical profession proCession for this tryIng malady he will be Indeed one of the benefactors of the human race I