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Title |
Blood Sugar Screening Test |
Object Name |
Kit, Test |
Object ID |
01:03.055 |
Description |
Dark Green Box with directions on inside lid; box contains materials to test blood sugar content. **NOTE: KIT CONTAINS ASBESTOS: DO NOT OPEN SEALED PLASTIC |
Dimensions |
H-2 W-6 L-8 inches |
Material |
Glass, Metal, Cardboard, Chemical, ASBESTOS** |
Made |
Eli Lilly and Company |
Search Terms |
Blood Glucose Monitoring Diabetes Eli Lilly and Company Endocrinology |
Provenance |
The Wilkerson-Heftmann method for testing blood sugar is an alternative to Dr. Somogyi's method, and it is used in this kit. Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883 - 1971) was an Austro-Hungarian- born professor of biochemistry at the Washington University and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, who prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with diabetes in the USA in October 1922.[1] Somogyi showed that excessive insulin makes diabetes unstable in the Chronic Somogyi rebound of which he gave his name, and first published his findings in 1938. |