Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-11-10
Ravages of Disease Are Checked
by Serum, Called Insulin,
Found in PanCreaS.
RELIEF is ALMOST CERTAIN
Treatment Developed With Rare Sue
cess at California Metabolic Clinic
Carnegie Corporation
Aiding Research.

garded as practically incurable, nave
met with remarkable success, accord
ing to reports by officials of the Car
negie corporation, which has MADE an
appropriation for research work at
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 rayages of the disease have
been checked by application of
serum discovered by Canadian physl-
clans working under DR.. ]. j. X. 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 apph-
cation of the serum. 1t is too early,
physicians say. to describe the treat
ment as sure cure for diabetes,
for the experiments at the Potter
laboratory have been going on for only
Is months.
DIR. Henry S. Pritchett, president
of the Carnegie corporation, who re-
Gently visited the Potter clinic and OBJ
served the experiments there, has
MAIDS report on the study and treat
ment there of diabetes, for inc0rpor;l-
ton in the annual report of the cor
pOratiOn.
Doctor Potter First Started Work.
Doctor Potter's metabolic research
began at the French hospital here.
He removed to Santa Barbara, Cal.
where a metabOlic clinic and labora~
tory was built by public-minded Cali
fornianS. The Carnegie corporation
has aided the work by an annual APP
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 dla-
betes. DR.. +. G.. Banting, working
dnder Doctor Macleod carried on in
tensive experiments to extract sub
stance from pancreatic tissues. This
substance was first injected into dog,
suffering with diabetes. The diabettc
symptoms disappeared. with the appli
cation of the serum, which is known
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 fl
cilitieS in the Potter MetabOlic clinic
in Santa Barbara and the opportunity
afforded by the close association OF
laboratory and hospital" Doctor
PritchettS report says, Doctor Mac
leod and his associates most gener-
ously and kindly communicated to
Doctor 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 MetabOlic clinic be,
gan strenuous efforts in the isolation
of the internal secretion of the pan
creaS now known as insulin. They
were Immediately successful and with
in two months had been able to
secure a sufficient amount of insulin
70 use on nine severe cases of dia
beteS.
Success of Treatment Established.
The results have been SO convincing
that there can be no doubt of the
great value of this substance in the
treatment of diabetes and it is quite
within the possibilities that the dis
cOyery may result in the relief and
cure of great numbers of people from
this ScOurge. The following cases
will illustrate the extraordinary sort
of results which have been obtained
"a patient of ffty-three years of age
was sent to the clinic on the verge of
diabetic coma, apparently death with
in Il few days awaited him. Follow
ing the administration of insulin he
became Immediately free from sugar, |
his diet could be increased to normal
and he rapidly gained in strength and
weight.
"a boy of twelve in extreme illness |
through diabetes became free from
sugar after "a hours of treatment with |
insulin and has remained free, although
his diet has been increased to practi- |
cally normal. This boy is gaining
weight at the rate of half pound a
day, and is leading the type of life
that any normal active child would
lead. BY the older dietary methods
partial starvation would have been
necessary even to prolong life, to say
nothing of restoration to health. The!
results in the other cases have been
equally astonishing.
1.-The problem is, of course, still in
its infancy. Insulin is prepared at
present at very great expense. Cheap.
er methods Of production must be de-
vised."
Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Chenault
yill go to Louisville Saturday for
the football game.