WHAT INSULIN IS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1923, Page 4

WHAT INSULIN IS.

•| hi i ll about Tin-: nf: \y curf: FOR DIABF:TF:s. j Th" divovery of iuMilin i- one ol the ! a,* 11 sensational adi'anee- oi modern I medicine, and il is hum ,1 vult ii- ai'l I Jina.uy to e\e*--*uue diahet- .- riles a ! piiv-ieian in ''Pearson’s Meekly"). | I,* tin' popular mind there are all | Mots of \ ague ideas as lo what diu- ; boics j-. and ii i- eoininon to hear peo- ! pli talk loosely aboil! ruling, drinking | or sugar diabrp-- as il Ha re Were - ■r- : * ia! I' i in-. i There are a- a matin of ini. two ! e:-t it c!y ililf.'iettl di.-ea-es wiindl go by I file name of diabetes. One of i’„, -*■. i| H .w,>v- i. i> eoinparativel;. liiinu'" -s. and i* is only tiie dread diabetes nnbiin . or saga.r diahcles. which has anything ’ to do with Iga rs- of sugar in the blood. ; St'f;AP>-- a NITfisSITY. j Now . ii 1 is a i- . iiy la eveiy I one's !,I.r,i|. as it. h i in?: tin- ' hiel b ■ d ;of . I'-.u al* s and t*- m. . Wan: ••' j mu-' - ;>>•. act it t tv. > cun-nine large ' fjiiairlii.a-s *f ugar. and in o':ler Hat ' ilit,. iuipoiiant toal slioiild always beat lip lid for their u.-e -lock's of it are - ,'d ill til” liver and museies :li 'U- :e!v( I a- i- g-'iie ally known, .-nr di-t u*n- : Mgs of pr< I •in-. *a: !>. d, t. l ri• " - • i -tar.-be', and fa Is a high are elec I.- ' 1 1 V iii*. dig" a ’(-a iui.-e- iat* Ho- n. y iroi!-. Tit" ,-n, Im, hydrate . - -ngars. bjeat?. rii-e. ami so on am! some of Ihe proteins arc ;!:anged in this way into g'll.'ose "i ! (*dy - near. Tni- in tin n i s! ii—il up in | l;e liver ami mu- * !•'- and m i:e d t '•'•il a- reip ireil. T' has b, :■ ii found tli-'-l w I ilm pan ii cu-. or mvi' -fle ,-aib wL-i* Ii i- in a efalld L'-in-: in-I below the stoinaci' -m il-rea-■-•! in human b'-bm-. ll'-r mit-i le-; in- un.d.-le to u-e Ho- sug.a'X The excess of sugar i- eatrie.l to tie kidneys and excreted, and dir.bi-ios reSldls. ’ll 11; FATA I; Hi-Fi' fi.’ Mild form- can ■ft ui L i-r-nt rolled.

by liinitng the intake of sugar-forming foods. In serious eases, however, the body not only wastes owing to lack of it-, proper food—sugar—but it also tries to make do on other substances, especially fat. This emergency use of fat results in poisonous products which eventually bring on that fatal dec)) sleep known e.s diabetic coma. The prancreas has long been known to n red wo one of the digestive juices called the pancreatic juice—which it pours by means of a duct into the digest ire canal. For many years it nas I won suspected that certain parts of it, known as the islets, formed a much more important internal secretion without which we cannot use un sugar. A SF.diKT ITiOCI'VT IP Hauling, of To; onto. lias recently discovered a method oi ext r..cling ibis invstei ions sene'ion from tlie pancreas of animals. The exact method of preparing tins i strait to which, the name of insulin has been given is known only to the Fiiirersity of Toronto in Canada, and to the Medical l“«c-ea:cli CommitUc in England. Certain manufacturing chemists are allowed to make it after being bound to secrecy. Its effect on patients suffering from serious diabetes is little shoit cl marvellous, but it must be borne in mind that it only relincves the symptoms and docs not cuv tile disease. It has also t, ; be injected under the skin with special precautions twice a day. and, as far as we know at im-ciii, ike treat leent. v. ill have to be enniimied for He, |t is to lie Imped that alter 1L lms hen given fur seme time the pancreas may recover and produce its own insulin. cad lu; tlier experiments arc in pro:;. - Willi the ulije-t of making in i iin which can he given by the mouth. Insulin i- a wnndorlnl advance, nut v.e have yet to discover the exact cause of diabetes. esagfSßXL xmsxaara&zsc '<mre*