Böcker utgivna av shailendra k. sinha

The book celebrates the centenary of the discovery of insulin and traces the developments in the types of insulin preparations used by patients with diabetes today. It is written for the lay public and presents the drama of the discovery including humorous and personal accounts of the many colourful characters in the insulin story.

There is in this slim treatise one message given in 1921, exactly one hundred years ago, which if followed may well have limited today''s pandemic of diabetes.The aphorisms, selected by the author, an ex-Joslin Fellow, are from the writings of Elliott Proctor Joslin, the founder of the Joslin Diabetes Centre in Boston and one of the greatest diabetes specialists of the twentieth century.

Written for the lay public, this book describes innovations in the treatment of diabetes before and after the discovery of insulin through the life story of Dr Elliott P. Joslin who wrote the first English textbook on the treatment of diabetes .Nurtured by the love of his mother, a staunch New England Puritan, Joslin, the son of a shoemaker in a village outside Boston, rose to be arguably the greatest diabetologist of the 20th century.∩╗┐