The isolation of insulin (in 1921) was a lifesaver for diabetics. But doctors now regard insulin as a mixed blessing. While it prolongs a diabetic's life, insulin may save him for complications that are even more dreaded than diabetes. Most common complication is arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
New Orleans' Dr. Robert A. Katz, a diabetic himself, has been working hard for four years on a promising treatment for gangrene due to diabetic hardening of the arteries. He discovered that intravenous ether injections dramatically stopped pain and cleared up the gangrene (TIME, March 10). Ether, the doctor thinks, opens up the...
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