SURGERY CONGRESS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 July 1923, Page 5

SURGERY CONGRESS.

THE DIABETES CURE.

■' BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 17. At the Congress of the International -vSociety of Surgery, four hundred worldwrenowned surgeons awaited an address

byr Dr. Banting, the discoverer of the fiinsulin cure for diabetes. When he :■■.-•-mounted the platform there was an expectant husk.

Dr. Banting, who was obviously ner"■""Voiis, began.in a rapid, colourless mono- ."' "tone about technicalities. When he re-

ferred to insulin he took exactly one to cover the wonderful dis-

covery. He then stopped abruptly and left the hall hurriedly before the audi--»jence had time to applaud. Later he '; stated his researches were not finished, and he was not going. to say a word

rrpiore.