INSULIN AND DIABETES.
RECENT RESEARCHES. : (BT CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION COPtEiOaT.) (kbuter's telegrams.) \ OTTAWA, August 12. Large 1 doses of insulin do not necessarily exert a proportionately greater curative power, according to the results of experiments carried out by Dr. C. H. Best and Dr. E. G. Smith, as reported to the-British Association for the Advancement of Science Conference at Toronto. '.■,.'■'
Working; with both normal and diabetic', dogs)' they found that . a small dose of insulin of'io units might'exert as rar«id and sustained an effect upon the blood sugar in.' the normal dog as a dose 10 times greater. Dr. E. Albritton,.'of Ohio University, declared that his researches disclosed that -'. in , healthy individuals sugar in the blood paused the pancreas to discharge iiisalin into the blood. In diabetics this "sugar accumulated and increased,- and. the problem was to find what';' causes ' tlie .pancreas to liberate itio ;insulin m a. healthy ..animal.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18151, 14 August 1924, Page 6
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