Tag: Aberdeen
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Maligning Macleod and “Bettering” Best: The discovery of insulin as depicted in film before Michael Bliss
James R. Wright Jr.Calgary, Alberta, Canada In 1921, Fred Banting and Charley Best, working under the supervision of JJR Macleod, made crude pancreatic extracts from duct-ligated dog, fetal bovine, or whole adult bovine pancreata and used these to treat diabetes in depancreatized dogs. On January 23, 1922, Walter Campbell administered a pancreatic extract purified by…
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John Arbuthnot: physician, wit, and creator of John Bull
JMS PearceHull, England, United Kingdom In the light of recent British parliamentary chaos, by chance I discovered this irresistible quotation: “All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”-John Arbuthnot At a time when in most westernized countries physicians and many others are disenchanted by politicians’ self-aggrandizement and expansionist policies, this little aphorism…