The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-01
HEY. SKINNAY, HAVE YOU HAD YOUR INSIJLIN TO-DAY?

young physician with all the fancy trim mings our hghbrow system demands In the | physician to-day, having engaged in private practice less than two years, protests that ! | am too fond of boosting specialists ana men or established prominence and that evidently have forgotten the younger and comparatlVcly
 unknown man who is trying to exist If not 10 live in keen competition with all the clinics and so on.
 If say anything at all complimentary about specialists and clinics and on, 1t Is 1nad- yertent, assure you. l invite the young phy- sician to keep tabs and when he catches me at any such trick to point out the speclnc offense. and we'll see what can be done to square things Incidentally may say that the specialists and men of established prominence do not hesitate to let me know what they are
 doing; l fear the young physicians are the hoity -toity ones. Perhaps the young men are
 more in awe of the principles of medical ethics than the hardened old warriors.
 When I say young" or "old" doctor do
 not think of the mans age. but of his pro-
 gressivcness. The insulin treatment to enable
 the underweight individual to gain weight and
 vigor, affords an instance. While this Is now
 becoming generally recognized as valuable
 method, when first advocated 1t here few
 years ago (of course l didn't discover the
 idea: 1 just discovered that some good physi-
 clans were using the method with highly sAtis-
 factory results, and thought 1t fair to let the
 public know about it)-the reaction Of physi-
 clans to inquiries of patients was typical. The
 old men (not few young in years) arbitrarily
 asserted that it isn't done or that 1t Is not safe
 The young men (many with long years or ex-
 pericncc) were either familiar with the method
 by reason of their constant endeavor to keep
 abreast of the march of medicine, or they
 promptly took steps to learn what little the
 physician requires to know about 1t and gave
 their patients the benefit of the new know
 ledge.
 An eastern physician has just published his studies of the effect of insulin in thin persons. The standard dosage ten units subcutan- eously three times day, some more and some less, and the patients had q liberal diet The patients gained weight immediately, the gain being less marked as the weight approached normal. In many cases the weight continues | to increase for weeks months after the in- sulln is discontinued; in nearly all the gain IS | held after the insulin is stopped; occasionally | a patient loses part of the gain after the in- l sulln is stopped. The gain averages three or | four pounds week, for from to twelve weeks.
 Most patients have a marked Improvement | in the sense of well being soon after treat | ment is started. They feel like persons. | Appetite of course is increased. They become
 more cheerful and jolly in disposition. Of | course. That goes with the fat, what? They | are certainly stronger and have more life in | them The treatment is truly tonic-and for | this reason 1t is being used as valuable ad- l Juvant method in some cases of tuberculosis. Once more l say Hey, Skinnay, you should | start your lnsulin treatment to -day-and don't | let any old fogy keep you from joining the | ranks of the well nourished."