MEDICAL CONGRESS.
DIPHTHERIA AND DIABETES. THE INSULIN TREATMENT. Melbourne, Nov. 15. The Medical Congress dealt with diphtheria and insulin. Regarding the former statistics were submitted showing that of 7000 throats examined 1.6 per cent were found to be carriers, while a further test disclosed that half of these examined were susceptible to diphtheria. No child fully immunised had wen susequently attacked by. the disease. In reference to insulin it was stated that diatetic management of a diabetes patient treated with insulin was just as essential as before its introduction. Large doses were disapproved. The present prices of the drug were considered prohibitive ,for the treat, ment of poor people. The efficacy of some insulin produced in Australia was questioned, owing to its inert condition.
Dr. de Crespigny stated that experiments in giving insulin by the mouth instead of bv injections had proved ineffective.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 284, 16 November 1923, Page 5
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