| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others, "Breakthrough" relives the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin. |
| Contents |
Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1981 -- Fifth Avenue, New York City, April 1919 -- Breakfast room of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- Library of the home of Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, April 1919 -- New York City, April 1919, later that afternoon -- Toronto, Canada, and Cambrai, France, 1917-1918 -- War, peace, and politics, 1914-1918 -- Glen Falls, New York, April 1920 -- Idea of the Physiatric Institute, May 1920 -- Banting's house in London, Ontario, Octo ber 30-31, 1920 -- Toronto or bust, October 1920 to April 1921 -- Presidential politics, 1916 and 1920 -- Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, 1921 -- Washington, D.C., and Boston, New York, March to September 1921 -- Washington Conference, November 12, 1921, to February 6, 1922 -- Physiatric Institute, Morristown, New Jersey, November 1921 -- University of Toronto, September to December 1921 -- Crossroads of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1919-1921 -- American Physiological Socity Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, December 28-30, 1921 |
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Success and failure, the University of Toronto, January, 1922 -- Failure and success, the University of Toronto, February to April 1922 -- Honeymoon cottage, Hamilton, Bermuda, January to July 1922 -- Parents, partners, and pancreases, Indianapolis and Toronto, April to August 1922 -- Fame and famine, Summer 1922 -- Four trunks, Washington, D.C., August 1922 -- Escape from Morristown, August 1922 -- Transformation begins, Toronto, August to November 1922 -- Crossing the line aboard the SS Pan America, August to September 1922 -- Fate, fortune, and forgetting, September to December 1922 -- Nobel Prize and beyond -- Emergence of Elizabeth Gossett. |
| Subject |
Insulin -- History.
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Gossett, Elizabeth Hughes, 1907-1981 -- Health.
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Diabetes -- Treatment -- History.
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| Added Author |
Ainsberg, Arthur.
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| ISBN |
9780312648701 |
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0312648707 |
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