CURE OF DIABETES
THE VALUE OF INSULIN.
EFFICACY OF SMALL DOSES,
Proas Association —Ev Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, August 12. Large doses of insulin do not necessarily exert a proportionately greater curative power, according to the results of experiments carried out by Dr C. H. Best (who was associated with Dr Banting, the discoverer of insulin) and Dr R- G. Smith, as reported to the British Association s Conference at Toronto. Working with both normal and diabetic dogs, they found that a small dose of insulin of 10 units might exert as vapid and sustained an effect upon blood sugar in a normal dog as a dose 10 times greater. Dr E. Albritton, of Ohio University,'declared that his researches had disclosed that in healthy individuals the sugar in the blood caused the pancreas to discharge insulin into the blood. In diabetics this sugar accumulates. The problem was to find what caused the pancreas to liberate insulin in healthy animals.—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19250, 14 August 1924, Page 7
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