AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

[Reuiehs Telegrams.]

A NEW DISCOVERY,

(Received this day at 9.25 a.in.) NEW YORK, August 13,

A message trout Baltimore states tho important discovery that glycerine may supplement insulin, and in some eases be substituted lor it in the treatment of advanced cases of diabetes, was made by John Hopkins, a hospital physician who discovered it. It was officially announced that it was the result ol experiments anil some ehauce when it was discovered. Ibe patient who was being provided with insulin for daily injections was neglecting ills treatment and the patient was found temperamentally unfit to administer the injections ol insulin, but made no objection when given glycerine as his daily diet, in balanced doses. The patient, who was about to die from the neglect ol insulin, made a prompt recovery alter taking the glycerine and is now back at work on half time.

THE MARVELS OF .SURGERY. OTTAWA, August 1.1. A message from Toronto says that Doctor Ivy Mackenzie, neurologist at tho Glasgow University, stated at a meeting of the British Association that surgery' had reached a stage where several nerves could be spliced. .Surgeons were able to join nerves in case of damage and cords might bo cut, lengthened and spliced again in cases of short lingers on limbs. In such operations it was impossible to join cut ends so that, exactly cor-

responding nerve fibres would grow together again, hut it was found that precision wjw unnecessary for the success of tho repair.