ATHLETICS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1923, Page 4

ATHLETICS

INSULIN. f OXBON. Ami.’ 2. Any diabetic patient can innv .bo treated by bi-i medical nttandan! with iimilin tin* rccc-mly discovered propum--1 ion fiT.m the panelv'ln-i -d cattle, no rapidly have the diliiculties in iU manufacture been overcome. The process of making insulin ivas described vesterday by Mr C‘. A. Hill and .Mr F. 11. Carr. Insulin i* present only in a certain small portion of the pancreas,, and vvlien the animal is hilled the ferments in the other parts of the pancreas quickly destroy the insulin. A Heel of motor cars brings t..e glands quickly from the slaughterj oases to the iaciory. and work is <a?ried on night and day. “\v o cannot waste a sing!;; pancreas. c<, valuable are they in saving human life.” said Mr Ilill. . Immediately on being received, the glands are put in a chamber, the temperature of which is 18deg. of frost. By wlmt is called fractional precipitation with alcohol of various strengths ail impurities arc removed, and liually toe insulin is recovered from a minting machines as white powder. Many thousands of doses of insulin are now being produced weekly at a cost of 2s 6d per

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