Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-26
BY DR.. John B. Huber.

STHE medical scientists OF tho Rookie
teller Institute are working upon a
cure for diabetes, disease that
now causes upward of one per cent of
all our deaths. and is regarded as very
grave because it often affects young poo
pie and is one Of the de2enerative dis.
eases that are growing common among
our most civilized city populations.
The idea of the medical scientists is
that the disease may be cured by Hvep-
aration Of animal pancreas. in order 10
help to onvert the carbohydrates in our
food into an assimiable form Of sugar.
1t is the failure OF the human pancreas
to perform this function thoroughly that
usually gives rise 10 diabetes Drs s.
j. Me!;zer and l. s Kleiner. of the Rookie
Teller Institute, are the scientists who
are conducting the investigation, and
they have already made many expert
ments and observations that are likely
TO be OF the greatest value to suffering
humanity.
Recent study has shown that the
pr cfcas is the most important digestive
organ in the body-far more important
than the stomach. People can get along
without stomach-which is not much
more than a bulge in the alimentary
tract-so long as their pancreas has
been in good working order. The main
business of the stomach is TO liuuefy
food and thus prepare it for pancreat!c
digestion
The Importance Of the Pancreas.
Well, he that as it may, the fact is
while one can manage without a stom-
ach, no one can survive removal of The
pancreaS. And as we shall see dis.
ease OF the pancreas or allegiance of its
function results in the appearance OF
sugar in the kidney secretion--that is, in
diabetes.
that organ through ducts which empty
into the intesines, near to their juno
ton with the stomach, and these fer
menis prepare our food for absorption
by the glands lining the several yards
OF small intestine which we each
OF us have slowed away among our "in.
nards." Then these intestinal glands
pass on the nntriment TO the portal vein
and the lymph channels, which latter are
known as the lacteals. The portal vein
carries its share of the nutrimcnt to the
liver, where it is converted into gly.
cogen, as will later be described.
The product thus acted on in the liye-
- '"e!i passed 10 the hc11tlc vein
whence 81. eventually reaches the right
side OF. Ia. heart, and so enters the cir
cu!auon The lymph channels, the lac.
teals, also eventually empty their prod.
nct into great vein, which enters also
the right heart. From the right heart
a.! TINS nervous blood is then pumped 10
the lungs, where, in the process OF res.
piracon, i Is purified ny its combination
with oxygen. the ifc.giving gas Tnc
resulting combination OF food and oyy
gen carried back TO the left side OF Tho
hfart, ana thence circulated throughou,
our oodlcS Is what sustains rs aud IN.
anlos us 10 continue our existence
Roughly speaking, We take into on.
bodies three kinds OF foods-protoiis
and the like, carbohydrates (starchas
potato. bananas. sugars, cereals. bread
iarlna, oatmeal and the li.ol and ia.s
lhntter tat, animal fat oils ana the like,
In" proteids go 10 make up bone ana
slneW' Drawn and muscle: the carbohv.
dra'eS and fats keep up for us our animal
neat and maintain the energy by wbirh
speaking. only the carbohydrates. di.
Rested by tho pancrcatic juices and con.
Neyed ny the portal vein 10 the liver
WhlcA concern us in Our discussion O.
diabetes. This is the result OF the car
hohydrates not being properly digosted
90 't.''! " !s' disposed Di IN inc BODY.
Take now look at the following
formulas
Glucoses saccharoses Amylose..
G. III. o. O. Ia Or c. IL. o
--Dextrose. saccharosc. Glycogcn
-Levn!ose, etc. Maltese, etc T Starch. etc.
You observe that all these substances
are COMPOSED in various proportions of
the three chemical elements. carbon tCl
hydrogen III ana oxygen (OJ. carbon
is a most necessary CONSTITUENT, OF our
bodies; il exists i'll nature as charcoal
and graphite ana the diamond. but espe.
ciaily In the material which we use for
food. The other elements in all those
chemical compounds are hydrogen and
oxygen; and YOU will notice that these
latter are always in the proportion 10
form water--which is known TO Inc chem.
list as H:O (that is Two atoms of hydro
gen 10 one OF oxygen. Thus Doth the
StarcheS and The sugars arc carbohy-
dratcs-that is, six atoms OF carbon with
six portions of hydrate (six times U.OI