Tag: children
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Part II: The impact of insulin on children with diabetes at Toronto Sick Kids in the 1920s
Sarah RiedlingerDean GiustiniBrenden HurshVancouver, British Columbia, Canada Progress in diabetes care between 1922 and 1929 In 1923 Banting joined the staff of the Hospital for Sick Children and was placed in charge of diabetes care. He and physician Gladys Boyd developed a comprehensive program of treating children with diabetes. The program resulted in a 50%…
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Poppy power
John Graham-PoleGainesville, Florida, United States The poppy’s juice . . .brings the sleep to dear Mama— Sara Coleridge, Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree— Samuel Coleridge, Kubla Khan, penned on waking from an opium-induced dream Of all God’s floral bounty, only papaver somnifera drips its beads…
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Le Petit Journal, clowns & children in hospital in Victorian London
Anthony RyanGrace NevilleCork, Ireland Le Petit Journal (LPJ) was a Parisian newspaper published from 1863 to 1944, with a circulation of over a million copies at the height of its popularity in the 1890s when it had a corresponding impact on a large swathe of the newly literate French population of the time.1 As well…