Medicine: In Marion

"I've got diabetes," said Dr. George T. Harding, father of the late President, to a pressman. The old man thinly raised his voice, expressed his scorn for the insulin treatment favored by the American Medical Association. Said he :

"I can't muster much enthusiasm for a remedy that merely alleviates a disease without getting down to the root causes of it. ... Some of the greatest specialists in the country have offered to come to Marion and treat me for this disease; but, when I found they had the insulin bug, I would...

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