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Elizabeth Evans Hughes Gossett (August 19, 1907 – April 21, 1981), the daughter of statesman Charles Evans Hughes, was the first American, and one of the first people in the world, treated with insulin for type 1 diabetes.
30 de nov. de 2023 · 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 ...
25 de oct. de 2011 · In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections – all while its discoverers and a little known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world.
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.
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.
14 de sept. de 2010 · Elizabeth Hughes was the eleven year-old daughter of a prominent and popular American politician when she was diagnosed as a diabetic. There was no cure and few survived more than a year. The only treatment was a carefully monitored starvation developed by Dr. Frederick Allen.
30 de nov. de 2010 · The insulin discovery research story is remarkable all the way from its humble beginnings (Banting and Best, sweaty and surrounded by dog feces, struggling to isolate insulin from canine pancreases in a dingy laboratory) to its controversial conclusions.
