Show I MEDICAL CONVENTION CALLS INSULIN II BIG STRIDE IN MEDICINE I I Discovery of Canadian Physician Gains Approval I as Remedy for Sufferers of Diabetes I I By MALCOLM ELLIS Copyright 1923 r nv e A i EW YORK A 5 little than i NEW N May more a year ago a ayoung young Canadian Candian Doctor Banti Banting g brought from hom the thel I test tubes of his laboratory and laid before the world a anew new discovered medic medicine ne Today after a year of research and investigation by Americas America's leading authorities on diabetes the young Canadian has been recognized as one of humanity's great benefactors and his discovery is isI I hailed as one one one of the great strides of modern medicine Amerl American physicians and cur cur- sur surgeons geons In session this 11 week eel at sur-I sur At- At Atlantic At Atlantic lantic heard the results of a eara ears ear's and experimentation willi wIth Insulin and placed their official cial sanction upon It Results ot of othe the administration of the powerful extract were detailed at the tho At- At Atlantic Atlantic At Atlantic lantic CItI CIt COO convention contention by Doctors I R B T 1 Woody roody of Chicago and E P Joslin pt of Boston who were plo plo- pio pioneers nears in the use usa pt ot tho serum along with the Toronto g l ana af I N J 3 Our of oC the tea eon wn In Atlantic City Is expected to come a broader use of oC the ex- ex extract ex extract I tract Heretofore doctors ha base hae e used It chiefly il ii experiments with dos dogs and and a few re- re researCh re research search patients but they Intend now no noto to extend Its it scope to include all h humanity IL Y ARE In qualities Because of his hI faith in jn the dual dual- of the discovery Frank A former Cormer president of the National City bank of or New Now NewYork NewYork I York was able to say the other day that ho had been resurrect resurrect- ads ad's ed cd the Tiger nger of France has claimed an extension to an oJ- oJ already al already ready long and useful life lite through Insulin The daughter of a former Cormer su- su su supreme preme court justice has been sated sa from CrOm a youthful grave grate by Insulin An artist whose name is known where wherever er magazines are read was pla Ing golf golt morning where whereof of year NU wo ago hit he Aas Wasa a In- In In In all ible bc t to mb mer a limb In ibis bOdy nu Ins caddy addy was a n old year year nine boy doomed toI to an I early death un- un until until un until til Insulin was found Cound I A a sear salesman who battled diabetes for tor tour lour years be- be before be before fore Dr Banting made his die die- dis discovery 10 covery Pry I 1 is to go back to his work ork I Ined ned neat month after acter nine months of treatment lie He weighed 78 76 pounds lat last October he weighs no now and Is gaining at tho the rite rito of halfa half a pound a day TR CT In Insulin is a powerful extract which gives gibes method to the fIghting of the malignant mall disease dIabetes that had a II death rate in 1920 of S 9 2 In a hundred thousand It Is estimated that there are more than diabetes and potential dia- dia dia diabetes betts betes in the United Stat States alone nod and this number Is rapidly mount mount- mountIng mounting mounting ing Insulin not only combats the of th the body which h char char- char dl but it furnishes the pancreatic secretion that much like a transformer converts the sugar the body takes in and puts puta lit It to the normal function junction of sup sup- sup sup-pi ph Ing From one of the tho h two 0 leading au- au au authorities on Insulin In the tho past east came tod the story of oC this pow pow- powerful powerful erful erCul extract of ot which even American Amer Amer- Iran ican physicians know little To this man roan doctors doctor from Crom every state In the union from London Parts Vienna and from Crom the bouth South Amer Amer- American ican countries are arc coming to learn about It For Jor the Ill Jaman lav man to I the tho full sl significance of the die die- dis discovery covery cr it Is ne to know of the disease which It combats WHAT WE is Ie Diabetes I sa Ca deficiency of or the In- In internal in internal terna I sections of the Islands of Langerhans of oC the r In normal persons the amount of ma- ma mat ma t tends tt-rials secreted In the pancreas Is to utilize all the sugar and foods that tre re eaten but In diabetic persons this material Is Ig lacking The Tha di Is due to previous re inflation of the caused by somo some common disease such is as s mumps pueu- pueu pneumonia monia fever ap- ap ap appendicitis and gallstone 1 Heredity and obesity are factors in 1 diabetes and medical men 11 e I of whre hl re it has run through genera generations hong The lisa percentage of rich men mn who ha hate the disease Is high because or their luxurious diets and la lacK laIt It ot of c c diet diets und mind In- In In ce sugar consumption ha have o caused me Ine death rate to mount SiN since In his In Toronto Dr Bantin finally d nt t HI the tha so no luin O- O lu of the tho problem After Arter months month of patient work orl abbots and dogs as 11 subject subjects for tor his experiments ho prepared an extract from the fresh pancreas of oC slaughtered animals The exact chemical nature of oC Insulin Is Jn baC battling en e evento to chemists It reacts like no other chemical substance n 1 DIrY nr n JJr s i TIO S wv tRY Tin rIte dosage is standardized In I unIts Other Othu methods of C adminis adminis- administration administration have hate been ben tried but no practical result h has han been obtained I from any but hypodermic Injection mice mice- Injection I tion The benefits of the injection are only temporary for tor insulin I at-I at- at attempts tempt s tempts only to replace the functions of a permanently damaged organ which replenishes Its supply of fluid with constanc constancy It Is ii the taking from the animal of ef an aja or- or organic organic organic ganic matter BO jo that human be- be beIngs be lags Ings may have havo the benefits It Is not therefore a cure ure It Is a rem rem- remedy rem remedy edy cOy The patient Is la never Without It Even en after he be hiss liaa been di chursed charged from the hospital he must take two VO or three injection a day daylis dayas ns lis long Ions aa lIS he H Ho lie must also be aa ns careful of his hia diet as he was under the former treatment |