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viii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the daughter of America's most distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. The only kind of treatment -- starvation -- whittles her down to forty-five pounds. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to purify insulin from animal pancreases -- a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense competition, and fistfights....
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