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Breakthrough
It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished 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 forty-five 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 it's never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others.
The American Midwest
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
奇蹟的救命靈藥
胰島素發明百年，重返奇蹟創造現場 糖尿病是現代人周身常見的疾患，胰島素出現前卻是不治之症！ 醫師、科學家、商人、政治家交錯登場，諾貝爾生醫獎史上知名的肥皂劇，一場二十世紀醫學突破的人間劇場！ 大門打開時，美國國務卿休斯夫婦見到了小女兒伊莉莎白，她的外貌竟然恢復到四年前還沒生病的樣子，恐懼與憂傷在喜悅的淚水中消散，三個人像是船難生還者般緊緊擁抱在一起。 彼時，不會有人問一個糖尿病童「長大以後要做什麼？」，伊莉莎白．休斯的病程，呈現的正是糖尿病患者絕境般的人生。她卻有幸成...
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Mrs. Charlie
Includes photos contributed by Prudence Mayo Fox, John Hartzell, Mayo Kooiman, Penelope Mayo Lord, Charles Mayo Rankin, Edith Rankin Redden, and Olmsted Historical Society, Rochester, Minnesota.
Caring for the Heart
This study explores the parallel histories of the Mayo Clinic, the care of patients with heart disease, and specialization in cardiology during the twentieth century. Chapters are devoted to such technologies as open-heart surgery, coronary angiography, and echocardiography, and to the key individuals, instituions, and innovations that played vital roles in the technologies that transformed heart care.--From publisher description.
