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Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett (August 19, 1907 – April 21, 1981), the daughter of US statesman Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes. She received over 42,000 insulin shots over her lifetime.
Elisabeth Gosset Hughes no fue la primera paciente en recibir el tratamiento, pero la fama de su padre hizo que el éxito de la insulina abriera los periódicos de toda América y Europa. Para muchos expertos su caso hizo que el uso clínico de la insulina acabara con las inmensas salas de niños en coma unos diez años antes de lo previsible.
Elizabeth Hughes Gossett was born on August 19, 1907 in the Executive Mansion in Albany, New York while her father, Charles Evans Hughes, was serving as the state's Governor. In 1919, at age 11, Elizabeth developed juvenile diabetes, and, by the age of 14, her health had deteriorated significantly.
14 de sept. de 2010 · 4.13. 905 ratings158 reviews. 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.
Elizabeth Gossett died of pneumonia on April 21, 1981 at the age of seventy-three. She had lived for fifty-eight years on insulin. Her life had been full and active and she believed that few of her friends or associates knew of her diabetic condition.
26 de abr. de 1981 · By Maureen Joyce. April 26, 1981 at 12:00 a.m. EST. Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, 73, the last surviving child of the late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and the founder of the Supreme...
16 de ago. de 2011 · Breakthrough : Elizabeth Hughes, the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle. by. Cooper, Thea; Ainsberg, Arthur. Publication date. 2010. Topics. Gossett, Elizabeth Hughes, 1908-1981, Insulin, Diabetes. Publisher. New York : St. Martin's Press.
