NEW DIABETES TREATMENT
(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
SYDNEY, 24th January. The cable reports of the new treatment of diabetes discovered in Toronto has brought to light the fact that the preparation is already in use at Adelaide University. , Professor Brailsford Robertson, of Adelaide University, has been for some time past conducting experiments with the preparation which has been extracted at the University laboratories from the pancreas of animals. A cable message was sent to Professor M'Le#d. of Toronto, who is probably the world's leading authority on diabetes, seeking permission to make the preparation here. He replied, giving details of the method under the guarantee that it would not be used commercially. The specific was originally discovered by Dr. Branting in Professor M'Leod's laboratory. It is not proposed to make the preparation on a large scale here, but merely sufficient to continue the experiments until a supply becomes available through the Conjraomvcalth lei'iuu laboratories.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 27, 1 February 1923, Page 7
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