IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
GLYCERINE FOR DIABETES
(By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (ReutePß Telegrams.)
NEW YORK, August 13;- > A message from Baltimore-> states that an important discovery that -glycerine may supplement insulin, and in some eases be-substituted forlt; in the treatment of advanced cases, of. (diabetes was made by Dr John Hopkins, hospital physician. The discovery -is officially announced as the • t result." >-©f of experiments and to some chance, -when it w T as discovered that thfe-- patient who was being provided with insulin for daily injections was neglectinn- the treatment’. The patient was found temperamentally unfit to administer injections of insulin, but made no objection when given glycerine: as v*a daily diet in balanced doses. (The -patient, who wa« about to die from his neglect of insulin,. made ;a prompt recovery after taking glycerine, and is now back at work on half-time.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 August 1924, Page 5
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