The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-10-30
RavageS of Disease Are Checked
by Serum, Called InsuIin,
Found in PancreaS.
RELIEF IS ALMOST CERTAIN
Treatment Developed With Rare Sue
cess at California MetaboiIc Clinic
Carnegie Corporation
Aiding Research.

garded as practically incurable, have
met with remarkable success, accord
ing to reports by officials of the Car
negie corporation, which has made an
appropriation for research work al
the Potter metabOlic laboratory and
clinic in California. The treatment
that is being administered has given
relief in practically all the cases un-
der observation.
The a of the disease have
been checked by application of a
serum discovered by Canadian physi-
clans working under DR.. j.. j. r.. Mac
leod of the University Of Toronto.
This serum has been used at the Pot
ter laboratory. Thus far relief has
been dependent upon constant applf-
cation of the serum. 1t is too early,
physicians say, to describe the treat
ment as a sure cure" for diabetes,
for the experiments at the Potter
laboratory have been going on for only
1S months.
DR.. Henry 8. Pritchett, president
of the Carnegie corporation, who re-
Gently visited the Potter clinic and OBJ
served the experiments there, has
made a report on the study and treat
ment there of diabetes, for incOrpOra-
ton in the annual report of the cor
poration.
Doctor Potter First Started Work.
Doctor Potter's metaboIfc research
began at the French hospital here.
He removed to Santa Barbara, Cal,
wher a metabolic clinic and labOra-
tory was built by publlc-minded Call
fornians. The Carnegie corporation
has aided the work BY an annual ap-
preparation. Doctor Potter died in
1919, and since then the work has been
carried on under the direction of w.
D. Sansum.
Intensive studies on the Internal
secretion of the pancreas had been
carried on In the meantime under Doc
tor Macleod in Canada. 1t has long
been known that some pathology of
the pancreas is responsible for dta--
betes. DR.. It. G. Bantfng, working
under Doctor Macleod, carried on In
tensive experiments to extract a sub
stance from pancreatic tissues. This
substance was first injected into dogs
suffering with diabetes. The dIabetic
symptoms disappeared with the appii-
CaIlOn OF In0 SG1ulu, WHICH, IL huOWu
as insulin. Convincing results of the
efficiency of the serum were obtained
by Doctor Banting in the cases Of hui
mans suffering with the disease.
"On account OF the admirable fla
cilities in the Potter MetabOlfc clinic
In Santa Barbara and the opportunity
afforded by the close association of
laboratory n hospital" Doctor
Pritchett's report says, doctor Mac
and his associates most gener-
ously and kindly communicated to
SanSum and his staff In Santa
Barbara such full information as they
had and because of the urgent need
for such an extract of the pancreas
urged their immediate cooperation.
With the information thus generously
given through Doctor Macleod, the
staff of the Potter MetaboIfc clinic be
gan strenuous efforts In the Isolation
of the internal secretion of the pan
creas now known as lnSulln. They
we're Immediately successful and with
In two months had been able to
secure q sufficient amount of insuIin
to use on nine severe eases of dia-
Success Of Treatment Established.
The result have been so convincing
that there can be no doubt of the
great value Of this substance in the
treatment of diabetes and 1t is quite
the possibilities that the dis
,overy may result in the relief and
cure of great numbers of people from
his scourge. The following cases
will illustrate the extraordinary sort
Il results which have been obtained:
"A patient of ffty-three years of g
vas sent to the clinic on the verge of
coma, apparently death with
n a few days awaited lin. Follow
ng the administration of insuIin he
,ecame Immediately free from sugar.
is diet could be increased to normal
nd he rapidly gained in strength inc
Weight. !
"a boy Of twelve in extreme illness :
trough diabetes became free from :
ugar after "a hours of treatment with :
lsulIn and has remained free, although !
is diet has been increased to practi- :
ally normal. This boy is gaining I
eight at the rate of half a pound q =
ay, and is leading the type of life !
lat any normal active child would !.
By the older dietary methods =
artial starvation % have been
ecessary even to prolong life, to say
othing of restoration to health The
in the other cases have been I
lually astonishing. =
'The problem is, of course, still In :
) infancy. InsuIin is prepared at :
resent at very great expense. Cheap :
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