New Healing Treatment

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 44, 21 February 1945, Page 2

New Healing Treatment

By a new application of insulin, British doctors have succeeded in heal ing specialty difficult wounds which would not react to normal methods of treatment. Details of the treatment which is likely to benefit thousands of war casualties and others suffering from wounds that refuse to heal are published in the London “Medical Express” and circular. Doctor Nevil Leyton, London Glands Specialist, states that some time ago he applied an insulin ointment to an open wound which had refused to heal after six months’ treatment. Ho successful wus its action that the wound has never since re-opened although the patient, now in HUB b’.A.F.. htf bo— wounded in action and made parachute jumps. Hince this initial success treatment has be<*n tried in other cases with consistent success. Dr. Leyton proposes that the new' treatment—based on the special study of the stimulative effect of insulin on tissues —should be given a systematic trial on cases where healing proves difficult. He recommends particularly that it should be applied in cases where penicillin or sulp'honamide has proved ineffective, where skin grafting takes poorly, or where there is drug sensitivity. Dr. Leyton is the son of a well-known cancer research worker, the late Doctor A. Leyton, Professor of Pathology at Leeds University, and his mother was one of the first women to qualify as a doctor.