Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
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It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the elevenyearold daughter of Americas mostdistinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment starvation whittles her down to fortyfive pounds skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition and fistfights. In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections all while its discoverers and a little known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world.Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as its never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walkons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others.
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