INSULIN CURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 11

INSULIN CURE.

SUCCESS IN CHRISTCHTTRCH. DR. IHLLIGAX'S EXPERIENCES. Dr. E. B. D. Milligan, who is attend-ing-to diabetic patients at the Christehurch Hospital, gave an address on ! diabetes and insulin before the Canterbury Philosophical Institute on Wednesday night. He was unable to state how prevalent the disease is in New Zealand, but ne said that a considerable number of ! persons, especially older ones, went ! about with diabetes, bu: did not know J what they were suffering from, if the" tease was not making rapid progress. Mc would say, roughly, that there were 200 diabetics in Christehurch. He would not say that they had it in a severe lorm and were in imminent danger of ■ death, .but 200, probably, was the minimum number. It attacked persons of all ages, but was not as severe in older Persons as in younger persons. As far as was known, it "was not due to a deficiency; it was not an infection; it ! 'as a hardening and destruction of cerwa special cells for some reason which. « present, was unknown. The "Official «ar Book" showed that slightly less wan 200 persons in New Zealand died I M diabetes every year, about a fifth of ' We number that died in N"ew Zealand of , ranter. Next year, probably, there j joultt be a tremendous drop in the oeath rate from diabetes, and in a few jears there might be no deaths from diabetes in the Dominion. The use of insulin undoubtedly ivas «epjng a number of diabetics alive in ™c Christchurch Hospital. Except in yonng patients, once a diabetic ahvavs » tabetic, or a potential one at least, °M it was hoped that young people *Ho were kept going with 'insulin would «i able to regenerate the pancreas, *lich played an important part in dhiwws, and would get rid of the disease. ' "c price of insulin was falling tremen- ' ".?>!• Il would become more readily j pliable, but, ou the principle of once i "■tabetic always a dialietie, which was ! J* only sale theory, the cost was con- I nnuous. i Going into the symptoms, he said (hat I there was a failure of conaihonc; or substance, that aided chemii action, and those that failed were »ece Ss ary- f or oxidisation of the glucose Tl,e were a wS mcrease j n weakness, loss of tth- + a ravenous appetite and a great ™£t. with the passage of a cc7rres ; large quantity of urine. The | ««t was the result of the abnormal ; tfe g f ° f urine - In addition, the quan- , «* of sugar in a glucose form w j qiin«£* dlabetir - eomparod with the • Sfrty >n a normal person, and the ; Sef? ° f a diabrtlC "" e i g Ugar . lju{ „„ ,• bets g " iD tbeir '"" ino " ere d;a " ' treati A betics un,ier his St , in their homes, a£d their Usual ™«tions: hadTp y treated him?elf " Tns,Uin \ great not only in SXfS; S cd . ia ■" other r' h^s