DEATH AFTER INSULIN.
LONDON. April 17,
It was stall’d at an inquest at Liver pool vestenrday on Unbelt Ashcroft Cropper, an E\”i-e clerk who died following insulin treatment lor diabetes, that the t real incut produced in Ins ease a state ot bypo-glyeoenlia (too small an amount ot sugar in the blood). Coma followed, and this. ill conjunction with the man's poor physical condition, caused his death. Dr 11. S. Pemberton .said insulin was administered at intervals over the past two years to t topper, and his condition improved wonderfully tip to the end of March. Crop|ter would only have lived three mouths with chronic diabetes it insulin had not been administered. Dr Pemberton added that he and Dr Leslie Cunningham had experimented on themselves with insulin and had produced this state of hypo-glycoeittia. It was stated that this was the lirst death in Liverpool and the second in Kngland as the result of insulin treatment. and that an enormous number of eases had been treated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1924, Page 3
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166DEATH AFTER INSULIN. Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1924, Page 3
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