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May cure diabetes
Diabetes, dreaded disease, yields to new gland cure
Insulin: a new factor in the treatment of diabetes
New treatment for diabetes attains remarkable results
A medical discovery
Insulin and diabetes
Insulin and diabetes in India
Discovery of extract that has power to restore capacity lost in diabetes is made public by Dr. John R. Murlin
Entero cap insulin from the islands of Langerhans of the pancreas
Advertisement for insulans
Letter to Dr. J. J. R. MacLeod 8/12/1922
United States patent no. 1,027,790: pancreas preparation suitable for the treatment of diabetes
Application for United States patent no. 1,027,790: pancreas preparation suitable for the treatment of diabetes
Specification forming part of letter of patent No. 691, 681: aseptic preparation from pancreas and process of producing same
Report of the technical conference for consideration of certain methods of biological standardisation
Insulin: A. B. Brand
Insulin, the new treatment for diabetes: its discovery, development, and present position
On the development of glandular remedy for diabetes
Report to the Insulin Committee on F. Lorne Hutchison's mission to Europe in the summer of 1924
Copy of the article: A  step forward in medical ethics
Proof of the report on the League of Nations second international conference on the standardisation of biological products
Dates of agreement between the Governors of the University of Toronto and their licenses
United States patent no. 1,470,024: method of preparation of an extract, obtainable from the mammalian pancreas or from the related glands of fishes, useful in the treatment of diabetes mellitus