Sufferers from diabetes will now be able to take insulin pleasantly in cocktail form, according to the results of experiments by William T. Salter '21, Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry to the Cancer Commission.
Salter, in association with Thomas S. Sappington '37, and Miss Hildegarde Wilson, has found, by experimentation on mice, that insulin, thyroid extract, and anterior pituitary gland hormones contain protein substances. The stomach contains enzymes which break up and digest proteins; thus insulin or any other protein type of hormone, if swallowed as food or drink, is treated as protein material.
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