TRIUMPH FOR INSULIN

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11664, 31 October 1923, Page 11

TRIUMPH FOR INSULIN

RACE TO BAVE A CHILD A REMARKABLE RECOVERY. Jack Keigjitley, five years of ago, who was rushed from South Africa to London in a race against the ravages of diabetes, was declared cured at the London Hospital recently. It is a new marvel of insulin treatment, says a London paper. Jack reached the hospital door a few weeks before barely alive He collapsed in the boat train from Southampton, and fell into a diabetic coma.

He had travelled from Johannesburg, where liis mother was informed by the doctors that the only hope for her ison lay in a lightning journey to London, in order that he mi'ght have insulin treatment. His mother did not waste an hour, but she reached London barely in time.

Tho log of the London Hoepital states: “He arrived so thin that a treatment suit which he filled twelve months previously now had to be pinned back and front, be enure of the overlap.” The doctors despaired of his life. His blood sugar had fallen to .02, the lowest ever recorded in medical history. Hie desperate condition is made clear when one learns that a rabhit is seized by convulsions when its blood sugar reaches .04.

“He looked exactly like a skeleton,” said a nurse, “and his hones were so brittle that I was afraid to touch his hands or limbs lest I should break them.”

He remained lialf-oomatose for days. The doctors began their work by giving him ten units of inisiulin. Their task thereafter was ceaseless and tireless, and ho is now cured.

He is tile |Hit of the hospital, a small fat, chubby person, who has told all the nurses and the doctors that ho will Kivo them a penny each in order that they may go back with him to South Africa