Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-05-19
Famous Physician
Discovers Cure For
Dreaded Disease
Gives To World A Cure For
Diabetes.-Insulin Name
Of New Discovery

A little more than year ago a
young Canadian doctor, DR.. Banting,
brought from, the test tubes of his
laboratory and laid before the world
a new discovery in medicine.
Today, after year Of research and
investigation by Americas leading
authorities on diabetes, the young
Canadian has been recognized as one
OF humanity's great benefactors, and
his discovery is hailed as zone Of the
great strides of modern medicine"
American physicians and surgeons,
in session this week at Atlantic City,
heard the results Of years research
and experimentation with insulin and
put their official sanction upon it.
Results Of the administration of the
powerful extract were detailed at the
Atlantic City convention by Drs. r..
I. Woodyatt, OF Chicago, and E. P.
Joslin, OF Boston, who were pioneers
in the use Of the serum along with
the Toronto General Hospital and the
Physiatric Institute at Morristown,
N. J. Out Of the convention in At
lantic City is expected to come a
broader use Of the extract. Hereto
lore doctors have used it chiefly in
experiment with dogs and rabbits and
few research patients, but they in
tend now to extend it's scope to include
ali humanity.
Because OF his faith in the qualities
Of the dicovery, Frank A. Vanderbilt,
formerly president of the National
City Bank of New York, was able to
say the other day that he had been
"resurrected." Clemenceau, the Tiger
Of France, has claimed an extension
to an already long and full life thru
insulin; the daughter of former Su-
preme Court justice has been saved
from youthful grave by insulin.
Insulin is powerful extract which
gives method to the fighting Of the
malignant disease, diabetes, that had
a death rate in 1920 Of 9.2 in 100000.
It is estimated that there are more
than 100000 diabetes and potential
diabetes in the United States alone,
and this number is rapidly mounting.
1nsulin not only combats the wasting
Of the body, which characterizes dia-
betes, but it furnishes the pancreatic
secretion that, much like transform
er, converts the sugar the body takes
in and puts it to the normal functions
of supplying energy.
From one of the two leading au-
thorities in the East on insulin came
the story Of this powerful extract of
which even American physicians know
little. To this man doctors from ev-
cry State in the Union, from London,
Paris, Vienna and from the South
American countries are coming to
learn about it.
Heredity and obesity are factors in
inducing diabetes and medical men
have records Of instances where it
has run through generations. The
percentage of rich men who have the
disease is high, because of their
luxurious diet, sedentary habits and
lack of exercise. Richer diets and in
creased sugar consumption have caus-
ed the death rate to mount since 1880.
In his laboratory in Toronto, DR..
Bantin finally arrived at the solution
of the problem. After months of pa
tient work with rabbits and dogs as
subjects for his experiments, he pre-
pared an extract from the fresh pam
creas Of slaughtered animals. The
exact chemical nature of insulin is
battling even to chemists. It reacts
like no other chemical substance.
The dosage is standardized in units.
Other methods of administration have
been tried, but no practical result has
been obtained from any but hypoder-
mic injection. The benefits of the in
lection are only temporary, for insu-
lin attempts only to replace the func-
tions Of a permanently damaged or
gan which replenishes it's supply of
the fluid with constancy. It is the
taking from the animal of an organ
ic matter so that human beings may
have the benefits. It is not, therefore,
a cure; it is a remedy. The patient
is never without it.