INSULIN MAY BE “DANGER”

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1937, Page 10

INSULIN MAY BE “DANGER”

EFFECTS SAME AS ALCOHOL

LONDON. March 14

"Motorists under the influence of an overdose of insulin arc equally dangerous from the public point of view as those under the influence ol drink,” said the Bow Street magistrate Mr Dummett, yesterday. Before' him was Henry Webb, aged forty-seven, of Faber Gardens, Hendon, charged with driving under the influence of drink. Webb denied the charge, while the police surgeon said that Webb had told him he suffered from diabetes and had taken a. double dose of insulin when he had had no food.

The doctor agreed that the effects of too much insulin were practically indistinguishable from those of alcohol. These would be lightheadedness, irritability. lack of deftness and movement in the limbs, and perspiration. Dismissing the case, Mr Dummett

hoped that in the next Act of Parliament. such people should lie included with those unfit to drive. "’rhe police surgeon has said that an overdose of insulin does produce similar conditions to an overdose of alcohol." ho added. "That being so, in the rough and ready way in which wo deal with things at this court, i cannot, say that, there were not present certain conditions which .justify mo in saying there must bo some doubt.”