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Title |
Sample of Crystalline Insulin |
Object Name |
Sample |
Object ID |
01:03.048 |
Description |
Small blue box containing tube of crystalline insulin. |
Dimensions |
H-0.5 W-0.5 L-2.25 inches |
Material |
Cardboard, Glass, Chemical |
Made |
Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. |
Search Terms |
Crystals Diabetes Endocrinology Insulin Samples |
Provenance |
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. |